“A totalitarian society makes enormous demands on the courage of men, and a partially totalitarian society makes even greater demands for the general anxiety is greater.” —Norman Mailer I. Norman Mailer once posited, in so many thousand words, that our greatest ally in making critical decisions in circumstances both highly consequential and immediately threatening is instinct.…
The craft-cocktail movement, a trend so pervasive it’s become second nature at most bars, has given us some great rewards and some terrible setbacks. This website, when it comes to food and drink, is here to celebrate these things and not to critique them, however. That’s sometimes difficult when you order a martini and the hip…