Holiday beers are predictably rich, dark, and spiced affairs, often laced with festive seasonings like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and other warming flavors much appreciated...
Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. Some counters are unfailingly resolute in their dedication to this thankless graveyard shift of the...
Sometime in early modern history, European haute cuisine lost its appetite for spice. After centuries of hungering for the rarest and costliest of aromatic...
Today is Black Friday, the notoriously chaotic and sometimes violent shopping day that comes a day after American Thanksgiving. It’s also notable for being...
Next Thursday is the American Thanksgiving holiday – which means it’s time to trot out that old legend concerning Benjamin Franklin’s opinions on two...
It was in the great borough of Queens in New York City that I first discovered both beer and birding, two great loves of...
I was really looking forward to this week’s installment of Birds and Booze. Last night was Hallowe’en, making tomorrow – in some Christian traditions...
In our times, it seems foolish to be fearful of birds. It’s an hopeful point of view, perhaps, but I like to think that...
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