Depending, of course, on your intended recipients, you could try some homemade liqueurs. Two that I’ve had good results with are limoncello (am Italian lemon liqueur made with vodka) and Irish cream (made with Irish whisky,...

of drinks by ingredient (you can list what you have & it’ll tell what you can make with it.) Also http://www.lollyland.com/classic.html has some fun info on some classics (ignore the unpleasant web design on that first...

OK, just back home (Cali, Colombia) from Tanzania via Nairobi, Paris, and Bogota: After a day and a night to get to Paris, take some small packs of saved-from-meals crackers, jam, cheese, and a mini-whisky to the Ibis hotel where...

customer service to serve one customer wine at its best, but the person who tastes it four days later gets something that reflects exposure to the elements. Fortified wines and spirits, however - whiskies, gins, Cognacs,...

of fun, and you can start throwing in food pairings after awhile too. Recently, we opened up a bottle of $5 cabernet and one that was closer to $60, and our wine newbie friends were very shocked by the difference. Even the least...

Macallan also bottles a 12-year-old whisky with a Trader Joe’s private label. It may be the same as one of the others you’ve listed, or it may be something entirely different.

Zanero’s in White Plains serves lots of food with little or no taste. The setting is fun; the food is boring.

oh yes! thanks for the remider and the thread. That was fun!

on a Maple Theme: Candied Maple-Gingerbread Cookie: Really sweet Sweet Potato Pie: Pretty ridiculous texture, with toasted marshmallows, grated candied sweet potato, delicccious Whisky Sabayon: Light, Pleasant Candied Maple Brown...

on any sources of deliciousness.) How many tries should you make? Can tastebuds really change in adulthood? I have effort to thank for: goat cheese and blue cheese, lamb, artichokes, and dark beers. But I still can’t get on...

carb with my friend for moral support. I thought it’d be fun to see how much will power I had and be able to eat pork rinds and egg salad up the wazoo. Problem is, that’s how a lot of fad dieters think. They go...

- if inherently subjective – debate as to where one reaches culinary absurdity at either end of the spectrum. Should it? Personally, I don’t think Mr. Submarine is worthy of discussion. Others clearly disagree. In the...

Africa, Argentina Great breads and bakery Items come from: Germany, India, France Great whisky comes from: Scotland Great cuisine comes from: China, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Morocco, Vietnam, Lebanon, Turkey,...

, and we had a couple of teenagers in the group, so I wanted someplace fun for them (somewhere they could tell their friends about – Hey, I went to Emeril’s place) and someplace not too fancy. I must say, we did enjoy...