Cristin “Moxy” Castro
Wine 2.0 and the Technological Evolution of the Spirit World
The day was Oct 10, 2007, and indie rockers Radiohead made a move to turn the music industry upside down. They released their album...
The Eclectic, Cool Wine Acid Test
Acid is a four-letter word, and I wish more people would use it. Wines need it, food needs it, music needs it and people...
Rum on the Rise
There’s a lot of talk today about who is better, best and right in the world of premium spirits, even with rums. There are...
The Ritual of Drink
There’s form and there’s function. Then there’s form fitting function and functional forms. So it follows, there’s ritual and there’s drinking. Then there’s ritualistic...
The Science of Molecular Mixology
Foam. Culinary foam. It’s the origin of molecular mixology, the love child of molecular gastronomy and extreme mixology. Foam is just the beginning.
There is...
The Art of Sake
Sake is at times ethereal, and at other times a cultural currency, but as with the other arts, in it we recognize that something...
Devil in a Blue Dress
Who comes up with these scenarios? It was interesting to listen as people piped up passionately. “Sight, of course.” “No, no, hearing. What about...
Liquid Love and the Supreme Elixirs
The story of chocolate reads like a novel, an ancient bitter elixir and all its evocative history: wealth, conquest, invasion, the Industrial Revolution, the...
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