Well, we’ve done it again. For a third year in a row, Birds and Booze...

Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has...

Holiday beers are predictably rich, dark, and spiced affairs, often laced with festive seasonings like...

Owling on Christmas Bird Counts is a peculiar business. Some counters are unfailingly resolute in...

Sometime in early modern history, European haute cuisine lost its appetite for spice. After centuries...

There’s a place in southeast Shanghai at the junction of the Yangtze River estuary and...

Today is Black Friday, the notoriously chaotic and sometimes violent shopping day that comes a...

Next Thursday is the American Thanksgiving holiday – which means it’s time to trot out...