Wayne Curtis is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, a chronicle of America’s most ignoble spirit. He’s been a columnist at The Atlantic magazine, The Daily Beast and American Scholar, and he's currently a columnist at Imbibe and Garden & Gun. He’s also written about spirits for The New York Times, Sunset, Yankee, enRoute, American Archeology and The Wall Street Journal. He's co-founder of the New Orleans Spirits Competition (presented by Tales of the Cocktail Foundation), and he teaches nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University. He lives mostly in New Orleans, sometimes in Maine.
The Return of America’s Most Patriotic Spirit
Welcome to "Spirit Guide," in which Wayne Curtis demystifies the ever-shifting spirits landscape one bottle at a time. Up now: a guide to the reemergence of American apple brandy, in…
- story: Wayne Curtis
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