The Negroni Has a Secret
Before it became a global symbol of sophistication, it was a lowbrow Tuscan club drink served tall.
- story: Andrea Strafile
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Where It All Began
In the first of a four-part series, Robert Simonson examines the late 1990s, a period that re-introduced the bar world to a century of lost knowledge.
- story: Robert Simonson
- illustration: Raphaelle Macaron
Does Anyone Really Know What Tiki Is?
What began as Don the Beachcomber’s fantasy has evolved into a fully fledged cocktail genre, and yet no one has ever quite managed to define it.
- story: Chloe Frechette
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Who Are You, Theodore Proulx?
The Golden Age bartender wrote one of history’s most important drink manuals, yet few have ever heard of him.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: The Bartender's Manual
Is That Classic Cocktail’s Origin Story Actually True?
If the story of a drink’s invention sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Here, seven tips on how to tell fact from fiction.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Life and Times of the Vodka Red Bull
The rare cocktail in which the mixer costs more than the spirit, "Liquid Cocaine" was, in its heyday, as controversial as it was popular
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The D List: Bringing Back the Antrim Cocktail
Bartender Selma Slabiak makes a case for this forgotten classic from the mind of “a careful, almost clinical, student of potable liquids.”
- story: Drew Lazor
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Martini, Up, With a Blue Cheese-Stuffed Olive
The blue cheese-stuffed olive has proven itself, bizarrely, to be one of the few drink garnishes with real staying power.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Rise and Fall of the Aviation Cocktail
Once a secret handshake among the cocktail cognoscenti, the Aviation enjoyed a decade-long heyday before falling back into relative obscurity.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Can the Martini-on-the-Rocks Make a Comeback?
In the years following World War II, ordering a Martini or Manhattan on the rocks was a standard affair. For some drinkers, it still is.
- story: Robert Simonson
- photo: Daniel Krieger
