alcohol

How tequila crossed the Mexican border and won over Americans

Lifestyle

As tequila tops global sales charts, a new book uncovers the spirit’s revolutionary roots and the family feuds that shaped its legacy, through the lens of tequila’s most prominent maker, Jose Cuervo. Americans have since helped save the liquor, which has become a billion-dollar industry — and a symbol of Mexican pride.

The drink of India’s Indigenous people gets a modern twist

Food
A liquor store on Saadoun Street in downtown Baghdad. The biggest sellers are beer and "Chivas 18 and [Johnny Walker} Black."

Beer and Chivas fly off the shelves as Baghdad’s liquor stores reopen after Ramadan

Business
A bartender at a Lima restaurant whips up one of Peru's signature pisco cocktails

A New York writer heads to Peru in search of a real ‘pisco sour’

Lifestyle & Belief