The Anthology, “Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up,” To...
It’s true–after three years of building our blog and compiling an amazing and varied archive of stories, we are so happy to announce that our book, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight...
View ArticleThe Drinking Diaries Anthology is about to be Published–Help us Spread the Word
As the publication of our book of essays, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up draws near–just days away, actually–we are thrilled to share the news about reviews, mentions and...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Book Trailer
In celebration of our just published book, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up, we have put together a book trailer video to give you some insight into the stories that make up the...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Launches and Writers Reach Out
It’s been over three years since we started this blog, and we are so grateful to all of you who have shared your stories and read those we’ve posted. As you probably know by now, Drinking Diaries:...
View ArticleThe Magic Kingdom To Get Even More Magical
With no plans to return anytime soon, I can only wonder if a cold beer would’ve helped me tolerate the 90-degree heat and long, snaking lines at Disney’s Magic Kingdom on my two visits there when my...
View ArticleNew Discoveries: Boxed Water, Negroni and Apfelschorle
In the last 10 days, I’ve encountered three new beverages. That isn’t something that happens very often, let alone in such a short span of time. And with each new encounter, I was struck by...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Goes to Brooklyn
On Sunday evening, Drinking Diaries co-editors, Caren and Leah, headed to Brooklyn for a reading at Cobble Hill’s premiere independent bookstore, BookCourt– just voted “Best Bookstore 2012″ by the...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Interview on Yahoo’s “The Shine”
As part of our mission to share stories about women’s relationship with alcohol, we were invited to the studio at Yahoo, for an interview on “The Shine” with host Allison Task. It proved a great forum...
View ArticleThe Dangers of American Teens Drinking Abroad
by Peggy Gennatiempo “He’s missing!” exclaimed the caller. “Missing?” I repeated. ” When did you last see him?” “He went out with a group of students last night, but didn’t show up at class this...
View ArticleHollywood Goes Winemaking
Some friends recently told me to go see “SOMM,” a feature documentary that follows four sommeliers as they get ready to take the Master Sommelier exam—a test with one of the lowest pass rates in the...
View ArticleMonks Export Craft Beer–One-time Only
Who said monks weren’t crafty? In an effort to raise funds toward the renovation of their abbey, the Belgian monks at St. Sixtus Abbey chose the the 12th day of the 12th month of 2012 to offer devout...
View ArticleTurning Wine Into Water
Beginning today and continuing through the month of March, the Parch campaign is setting the stage for people to turn their wine into water for people in Haiti. For those wanting to engage in the...
View ArticleHotel Minibars: Love Them or Dread Them?
Did you know that hotel minibars—which have been a prominent fixture in hotels since the mid 70s–are an endangered species? I hadn’t noticed, but then I recently came across this elegy for the minibar...
View ArticleDRINK reviewed by The Washington Post
Calling it “a wallop of a book,” DRINK by Ann Dowsett Johnston was recently reviewed in The Washington Post. One particular part of the interview (see below) struck me, as it so related to the skewed...
View ArticleWhen Doctors Can Hear, but Can’t Help
Last week, I read a troubling article that fell under the column title “Hard Cases” in the New York Times. Read on and you’ll understand why. The author, New York Times writer Abigail Zuger, M.D.,...
View ArticleThe Anthology, “Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up,” To...
It’s true–after three years of building our blog and compiling an amazing and varied archive of stories, we are so happy to announce that our book, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight...
View ArticleThe Drinking Diaries Anthology is about to be Published–Help us Spread the Word
As the publication of our book of essays, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up draws near–just days away, actually–we are thrilled to share the news about reviews, mentions and...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Book Trailer
In celebration of our just published book, Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up, we have put together a book trailer video to give you some insight into the stories that make up the...
View ArticleDrinking Diaries Launches and Writers Reach Out
It’s been over three years since we started this blog, and we are so grateful to all of you who have shared your stories and read those we’ve posted. As you probably know by now, Drinking Diaries:...
View ArticleThe Magic Kingdom To Get Even More Magical
With no plans to return anytime soon, I can only wonder if a cold beer would’ve helped me tolerate the 90-degree heat and long, snaking lines at Disney’s Magic Kingdom on my two visits there when my...
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