A Japanese Whisky Primer

Highland, Lowland, Hokkaido? (By Aaron Gilbreath)

Whiskey Primer

Watch out for the revenuers. (By Jason Horn)

Feats of Strength at the Cocktail Competition

Tasting 150 liquors in two days at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. (By Jordan Mackay)

How to Prepare for the Meal of Your Life

Six months ago you nabbed a reservation at the hottest restaurant in town. Now the meal of your life is two days away. You have to be prepared. You have to be psyched. You have to make the most of it. But how? (By Joyce Slaton)

There Never Was a Tom Collins

How your tail got its name. (By Kara Newman)

The Year in Food 2008

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Buenos Aires: Faded Elegance, High Design

Buenos Aires’s up-and-coming San Telmo neighborhood. (By Ella Lawrence)

Wired News presents a good overview of the “locavore” phenomenon—well-meaning folks doing their best to eat food produced within an arbitrary (generally less than 500 miles) distance of their homes. (By James Norton)

I was invited to a Cambodian lunch at Floating Rock Restaurant (144 Shirley Ave, Revere, Massachusetts; 781-286-2554), by my friend Chris, whom I cajoled into trying a durian milkshake. For those who don’t know, durian is a... (By Jim Leff)

Cape Breton Island is shut tight for the season, so I’ll be hunkering down in Halifax for the next few days. If I’d arrived just a week or two earlier, there’d have been many more Maritime options. (By Jim Leff)