The recent taxonomy of India Pale Ale – more popularly known these days by its initialism IPA – is as confusing and unstable as...

Or How a Serbian Suave Playboy Promoted Birding the Caribbean Oh, the joys of slipping through the pages of a new book that has...

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. You never know when you’ll be invited to a small...

It’s often said that the native wild grape varieties of the New World– of the species Vitis riparia, Vitis labrusca, Vitis aestivalis, and Vitis...

Depending on one’s perspective, it’s either through hilariously misleading irony or outright false advertising that many of the world’s great liquors derive their English...

The last time a Julie Zickefoose book was reviewed on this blogsite, the piece began by saying “This is going to be a rave...

With about two-thirds of the United States on the verge of a dangerous heatwave, I’m hesitant to endorse any libation but shockingly cold ice...

I consider myself fortunate that I learned to love summer birding before I ever knew what the summer doldrums are, if only because summer...