It seems like a lifetime ago, but in truth it was just a few months before these pandemic times we find ourselves enduring, with no...
I have still not worked up the courage for indoor dining at restaurants, but I have been keeping the COVID-19 blues at bay with regular...
Sting & The Police crooned eloquently in 1978 about falling in love with Roxanne, a lady working in the red light district of Paris. I...
The hot weather last week had me switching from red wines to chilled whites, kept in an ice bucket next to my patio chair so...
Long time readers may recall me waxing poetic about the Reinheitsgebot, also known as the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516, which decreed water, barley,...
Faithful readers may recall that I have often waxed poetic about the various failed attempts throughout North America to ban the demon liquor. Our Yankee...
As the global pandemic stretches into its fourth month, I have been cooped up in my home office, toiling away in isolation, without the friendly...
Every country has their own style of whisk(e)y. Scotland has their single malts. Ireland triple-distills in column stills. Canada makes whisky from rye grains, and...
National Martini Day has just recently passed us by, taking place on June 19 every year. In past years, I would usually get all gussied...
We are rapidly approaching the month of July, the first truly good month for outdoor boozing in Alberta. June is sorta-ok for outdoor boozing, except...