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  • The Birth (and Rebirth) of Rum Brands
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    The Birth (and Rebirth) of Rum Brands

    By Ben Schaffer on May 15, 2019

    The Birth (and Rebirth) of Rum Brands

    Though it was founded in 1753, Jamaica’s Hampden Estate distillery only this year issued the first aged rum under its own brand name. Now is certainly a good time to... Read More

  • Caribbean Cuisine Claims Its Fine Dining Voice
    Profiles

    Caribbean Cuisine Claims Its Fine Dining Voice

    By Maggie Hennessy on Jan 15, 2019

    Caribbean Cuisine Claims Its Fine Dining Voice

    Dinner at Compère Lapin, Nina Compton’s heartfelt restaurant that weaves together the cooking of her native Saint Lucia and her adopted New Orleans home, starts out very Southern indeed: with...
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  • Chris Blackwell: An Oracabessa of the Mind
    Profiles

    Chris Blackwell: An Oracabessa of the Mind

    By Ben Schaffer on Dec 11, 2018

    Chris Blackwell: An Oracabessa of the Mind

    “There’s definitely a kind of magic about Jamaica,” Chris Blackwell told me as we sat in the front room of his Manhattan aerie in the gray autumn light. With rainswept...
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  • Sugar: A Practical Guide
    Culture

    Sugar: A Practical Guide

    By Gina Haase on Oct 30, 2018

    Sugar: A Practical Guide

    Sugar and spirits have enjoyed a cheerful partnership in our cups since the fifteenth century. Expensive and relatively rare, sugar was treated as a mood-lifting drug, making frequent appearances in...
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  • The Daiquiri Dossier: Pegu Perspective
    Culture

    The Daiquiri Dossier: Pegu Perspective

    By Audrey Saunders on Sep 24, 2018

    The Daiquiri Dossier: Pegu Perspective

    As the Daiquiri is the preeminent rum cocktail, we knew we had to investigate it for the inauguration of the Rum Reader. Accordingly, we invited a who’s who of New...
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What Rum Means to Me

Kiowa Bryan: What Rum Means to Me

By Kiowa Bryan Aug. 18, 2020

I think my story of rum is a bit backwards from most rum people. I started mixing cocktails at the age of …

Mai Tais galore. Photo by Winston Rodney.
Culture

Masters of the Mai Tai: A Discussion at Jungle Bird, Part 2

Moderated by Ben Schaffer Aug. 12, 2020

On March 11, 2020, we gathered a panel of experts at New York’s Jungle Bird for an evening of Mai Tai marvel. …

Torches and tikis. Illustration by Pearl Shen.
Culture

Masters of the Mai Tai: A Discussion at Jungle Bird, Part 1

Moderated by Ben Schaffer Aug. 11, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not done with the Daiquiri. But there is another classic rum cocktail that merits a turn, …

Maggie Morgan portrait. Photo by Claire Rayes.
What Rum Means to Me

Maggie Morgan: What Rum Means to Me

By Maggie Morgan Aug. 4, 2020

Most people have close connections to spirits when they grew up around them or close to where they are made. …

Dale DeGroff and Audrey Saunders behind the stick at Blackbird. Illustration by Sayada Ramdial.
Culture

The Local: How Dale DeGroff’s Epochal Blackbird Revitalized Cocktail Culture

By Ben Schaffer Jul. 28, 2020

Dale DeGroff’s centrality to the revival of cocktails in the United States is undisputed. His tenure as bar …

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