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Newyork
Mushrooms Have Taken Over Fashion and Wellness. Up Next: Chocolate
In H. G. Wells’s 1896 short story “The Purple Pileus,” the protagonist attempts to end his life by ingesting fungi; instead of death, he is met with psychedelic visions that help him improve his life. Mushrooms, in the literary imagination and in our ...
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Newyork
The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City
When your hearing starts to go, you just want a place to sit, sip and have a talk: namely, a hotel bar.
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News
Bartenders Are Giving Blue Cocktails the Green Light
Once considered tacky, blue versions of classic cocktails are appearing on bar menus throughout New York City.
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News
The Lesbian Bar Isn’t Dead. It’s Pouring Orange Wine in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES — One pleasingly bitter, gently botanical, sort-of purple nonalcoholic cocktail in, and I was just happy to be caught in the gravitational pull of the Ruby Fruit. What could be better on a rainy weeknight than chatting with friends and ...
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News
Where to Dine Like a Tuscan, and More Reader Questions
Prepare for one very down-to-earth experience.
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World
Is This the New Cocktail Capital of Europe?
In April 1929, the Orient Express train from Paris pulled into Belgrade, as it did regularly on its way to Constantinople. But this was no ordinary day in the capital of what was then called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. At the train ...
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News
Celebrating the Roaring 2020s With a Bee’s Knees Cocktail
The Prohibition Era favorite is back on bar menus, with creative ingredients but the same inherent charm.
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Books
‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn
The one-man show means to draw the audience into a moral quandary pitting immigrants and the American poor against each other.
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Newyork
Dry for January? New Bars Cater to the ‘Sober Curious’
A former barfly samples alcohol-free bars and mocktail pop-ups in New York City.
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Newyork
That Mocktail Costs How Much?
On a Saturday night in December, just after sunset, Megan Horton sat at the bar of Nubeluz, a 50th-floor lounge on top of New York City’s newest Ritz Carlton hotel, savoring a drink. She was in town from San Francisco, where she works for Apple in ...