We all go through phases in life. Like baking sourdough bread or regrowing scallions on windowsills. Or wearing hot pants (hey, they're back!). You may have gone through a cocktail phase, particularly ...

Mixologists and cocktail aficionados, you already know what bitters are, but did you know that these liquid aromatics are good for so much more than adding flavor to your go-to drink? Yep, your ...

Most of us have been advised, at one time or another, that it’s necessary to take the bitter with the sweet. This idiom uses bitter for “bad” and sweet for “good,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.

In the dark times before nonalcoholic spirits were “a thing,” sober folks like myself had a few staple options to choose from whenever we’d go out with our imbibing friends. There’s the ever popular ...

Life is about balance, and in few aspects of life is this more true than food. We're lucky enough to experience not just one type of taste, but five distinct varieties: salty, sweet, umami, sour, and ...

If you like unwinding with an evening digestif, then there's a good chance that a bottle of Angostura bitters is sitting in your bar cart already. If not, your local cocktail bar or neighborhood dive ...

Free Range on Food: Cooking with winter ingredients, the role of food critics in the #MeToo era, "raw" water, using bitters in cocktails, and more. - The Washington Post This article was published ...

FARGO - Bitter may be the best way to describe this winter, but bitters are heating up around town. Bitters - made of herbs, bark or roots - are making a big comeback as part of the resurgence of ...