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CultureThe Birth (and Rebirth) of Rum Brands
By Ben Schaffer on May 15, 2019The 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
ProfilesCaribbean Cuisine Claims Its Fine Dining Voice
By Maggie Hennessy on Jan 15, 2019Caribbean 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... Read More- Culture
Sugar: A Practical Guide
By Gina Haase on Oct 30, 2018Sugar: 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... Read More - Culture
The Daiquiri Dossier: Pegu Perspective
By Audrey Saunders on Sep 24, 2018The 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... Read More
