A small glass of deep violet liquid, offset by tiny white bubbles, dancing in effervescence. The taste is syrupy and sweet, unabashedly artificial in its grape flavor, with a slight hint of the familiar fruit essence. Exploding carbonation intensifies the taste… Charles Passy passionately declared his love of Moxie soda in his recent Wall Street Journal post “Why Soda [...]

Stepping onto the grounds of Homestead Inn and Thomas Henkelmann in Greenwich, Connecticut is transcendant in that you are immediately, magically in Europe. I will save describing the beauty of a meal at  Thomas Henkelmann and instead tell you about the most delicious drink I enjoyed last Saturday evening. I stopped at Homestead’s elegant bar en route to [...]

I know I shouldn’t really talk about cigarettes and food in the same breathe. But one sniff the “Allspice Flip” cocktail at Zinc (New Haven) immediately transported me to my junior year of high school, when my older (senior) friend Sarah smoked Djarum clove cigarettes and listened to Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark’s Motion and [...]

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