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(Courtesy of The Betsy Hotel )
Marvelous Miami Mango Cocktails
Have you sunk your teeth into a Parvin nubbin? Is Nam Doc Mai too creamy for your palate, or do you prefer it to the fibrous sweetness of a hefty Tommy Atkins? Do you scream for Ice Cream, or roll your eyes at a Southern Blush? Or … are these Read more
(Courtesy of the Miami Marlins)
Drink With the Fishes
The best thing about baseball is the legends that build up around the game. There’s always a story, and it always has a whiff of the unreal, whether it’s Yogi Berra’s leaps in logic, Dock Ellis’ psychedelic-fueled no-hitter, Bo Jackson’s left-handed Read more
(Nick Garcia Photography)
Scotch Blended in the 'Miami Highlands'
A single bottle of Scotch whisky sold for more than $2.7 million last November. One bottle. It was a Macallan 1926, one of 40 bottles’ worth distilled in that year, aged 60 years in sherry wood and bottled in 1986. There are no tasting notes for this Read more
(World Red Eye for SOBEWFF)
The Art of Tiki Showdown Under Moonlit Skies
The year Prohibition ended, Hawaii was still two decades away from statehood, Miami Beach’s Art Deco Historic District was under construction and a fellow named Ernest Gantt taught America to fall in love with the exotic. He’d spent his youth Read more
The Transcendent Spirit of Japanese Whisky
There was dismay on the woman’s face at the next table. “This is … wrong! It’s … I don’t know, it’s wrong,” she said, and she put her glass down. “That’s not an old fashioned. I don’t know what it is.” Read more