Dark rum and the holidays just go together. Grog, hot toddies, all the nogs, and so many rum-soaked cakes. The spicy dark spirit is a crucial ingredient in cooking all things nice this time of year.

It’s long baffled me how two of the most essential flavors — sour and salty — came to be associated with bad moods. A sour person is someone to avoid. A sour in the cocktail world, though, is ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. This Old Fashioned riff is sweetened with a caramelized fig syrup made from flavorful ...

Even if you’re a keen whiskey sour drinker, you might not know about the long history of the whiskey sour cocktail and how it came to be such an iconic part of the cocktail canon. But what is a ...

Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage (or food) that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie ...