Where Does Your Wine Come From?

Real places versus dreamed-up marketing ploys.

The Fake Gatsby

A guide to New York City speakeasies.

Roasted Lamb Sausages with Grape-Mint Relish

Warm lamb sausages and cool grape relish form tasty juxtapositions of savory and sweet, hot and cold.

The Return of Punch

The big tail in a bowl makes a comeback.

Sippin' Yak

Cognac and Armagnac converge in consonants but diverge in style.

Age and Beauty

With mature wines bought at auction, you can have it both ways.

Advice for Despised Laptop Users

How to avoid dirty looks in coffeehouses.

Tea Bags for Cocktails?

This week’s mission: frozen Italian meals with a reasonably healthy twist and tea bags for your mixed drink.

Fashionable Food: Sausage-Stuffed Dates

Who’s making it and how you can make it yourself.

Downsizing Bad Friends

What to do when invitations go unreciprocated.

Spirit of Peace

Aquavit calms the stormy waters swirling between gin and vodka.

Tumbler Full of Wine

How to be casual with the vino.

RSVP to My Damn Invite!

How to get your friends to tell you if they’re coming.

Hold the Cream of Mushroom Soup

From Bismarck to St. Paul to Madison, new high-end restaurants are embracing such local cuisine as fried walleye and wild-rice porridge. Call it the birth of northwoods chic.

Kids Making Drinks

Is it wrong to ask minors to mix martinis?