Food & Beverage

I'm a firm believer in the idea that drinks have personality. Whether lone spirits or mixes, potables have idiosyncratic qualities just like people. As such, a lot of my opinions about drinks have more to do with whether or not I like them as people than how they actually taste. Take absinthe, for instance. I'm not a fan of the flavor of anise but I don't have many disparaging things to say about the green fairy. It does what it's supposed to do and doesn't apologize for its quirkiness. Like a man who's too old to change his ways, absinthe dresses, talks and believes how and what it wants, modern conventions be damned. I have a great amount of respect for the martini for being both bold and refined, a long-lived professional of a cocktail that continues to be the sharpest guy in the room without doing anything flashy. So, when I say that I both love and fear the rum and cola, know that it comes from a place of both experience and contemplation.