Deborah Stoll

Distinguishing between retro cocktails--similar ingredients, wacky names--can be confusing, even before you start throwing them back. The Collins? The Fizz? The Daisy? Well, here's a (distilled) explanation of what they have in common and what makes them deliciously different. Sometime around 1830, two Anglo-Irish playwrights penned a little ditty about......

One of the great things about classic cocktails is the vast and varied stories surrounding their inventions, each more colorful than the next and none a terribly exact thing. (Maybe comes with the territory.) The daiquiri is a cocktail with a fixed and glorious literary past, albeit weighed down in......

We all want things; love, happiness, legs without varicose veins, right now I want a slice of pizza but it's far too late for that because nothing is open anymore. Maybe I think the pizza will take my mind off this girl I've been watching. We'll call her The Actress,......

Kick-ass bartender Rachel Shaw (Malo, Wurstkuche) has two obsessions: great cocktails and great live music. Having long felt frustrated these two seemingly symbiotic worlds weren't meeting - "My bartender friends have an appreciation for music but work nights and my musician friends are into drinking but aren't getting Sazeracs at......