Three of the country’s foremost craft distillers—the trailblazing Karen Hoskin (Montanya Distillers); the financial theorist Bridget Firtle (Owney’s Rum); and the erudite Maggie Campbell...
Profiles
Rum Is Scotland’s Latest Enlightenment
The spirit you think of when Scotland comes to mind is whisky, while the typically-imagined setting for rum...
The Mixed-Up Files: Rum, Yesterday and Today
There comes a moment in our early education when we’ve worked our way up to constructing a whole paragraph...
Caribbean Cuisine Claims Its Fine Dining Voice
Dinner at Compère Lapin, Nina Compton’s heartfelt restaurant that weaves together the cooking of her...
The Daiquiri Dossier: A Symposium in New York, Part 2
On May 14, 2018, the Rum Reader convened a crucial cocktail council. A select panel of New York-based...
The Daiquiri Dossier: A Symposium in New York, Part 1
On May 14, 2018, the Rum Reader convened a crucial cocktail council. A select panel of New York-based...
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...