Image of the Day: Hitoyosi-City, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan

The Drinkable Globe will present one photo from a different part of the world each day, designed to inspire you in your worldwide beverage pursuits. And if you can’t get there on a plane, you can get there in spirit with a glass. Today’s image takes us to Hitoyosi-City in the Kumamoto Prefecture, on the…

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Saké in Osaka (Osaké?), Part 1

After a bit of a hiatus, the video featurettes (vide-ettes?) return with the first of several shot in Japan. Ever drink saké with fish parts in it? Unless you accidentally dropped a piece of sashimi in your cup (happens to the best of us), the answer is “probably not.” A tiny, hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Osaka…

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Cool Upcoming Online Event: World Food Travel Summit

Received a heads-up from the World Food Travel Association about its upcoming Online Food Travel Summit. Seems like a cool event for the culinary travel industry and it’s pretty affordable…. Today the World Food Travel Association (WFTA), the world’s leading authority on food and drink tourism, announced the world’s first 100%Online Food Travel Summit.  Eight individual…

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Malt, Motorways & Madness

There’s no other way to explore a place whose culture is so intertwined with fine beverages than through a glass. That’s especially true of Scotland from both a whisky and beer standpoint. For me, a trip is a complete failure if it’s so over-planned that I don’t actually learn anything during the journey. I’d rather…

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Izakaya Redux

Sometimes my writing gets published in other places. I’m very proud to have a story in the current issue of Draft magazine. And I’m over the moon by the fact that it’s on one of my passion subjects, Izakayas. The piece is specific to the Japanese bars in New York City, so if you live…

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Oh, Malört!

If you find yourself in Chicago, don’t even think about leaving without drinking some Malört, the fairly, umm, aggressive-tasting tipple based on the Scandinavian wormwood-infused spirit, bësk (Malört actually means wormwood). Jeppson’s Malört, launched legally in the Windy City in 1934 (but sold “medicinally” during Prohibition) was, and more or less the only game in…

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