Skip Navigation

Health

Filtered by articles written by Derek Brown (Clear filter)

Death by Flavored Vodka Shutterstock

Death by Flavored Vodka

If spirits writers and apocalyptic cults are right and the world actually ends in 2012, it will be because of the new wave of flavored vodkas that evoke a stream of childhood memories.

Confessions of a Binge Drinker Derek Brown

Confessions of a Binge Drinker

If, as the CDC suggests in a new report, binge drinking leads to violence, spread of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, and risky behavior, then why am I doing just fine?

Top 5 Cocktail Experiences of 2011 Derek Brown

Top 5 Cocktail Experiences of 2011

The cocktail as a culinary trend has not yet peaked. There are no longer 10 great drinks or 10 best bartenders; there are hundreds. But here, a handful to get you started in 2012.

This Holiday Season, Something We Can All Agree to Drink Derek Brown

This Holiday Season, Something We Can All Agree to Drink

Consider dark rum the great appeaser. It can be mixed and matched until you have a drink anybody in your family will be able to enjoy.

How the English Stole Holland's Juniper-Flavored Liquor Rob Ireton/flickr

How the English Stole Holland's Juniper-Flavored Liquor

Before gin was gin, it was genever—the original, Dutch version. A gin-loving bartender on the history of a favorite spirit.

A Field Guide to Yelp's Unhappy, Unhelpful Eaters LOLren/flickr

A Field Guide to Yelp's Unhappy, Unhelpful Eaters

The Ubermensch, the Know-Nothing, the Cheapskate, and other types of reviewers to avoid in the dark alleys of Yelp

A Valentine's Day Drink, Shakespeare-Approved StuartWebster/flickr

A Valentine's Day Drink, Shakespeare-Approved

As the master of sonnets put it, alcohol improves desire, but hinders lovemaking. Unless you drink vermouth.

Chefs and Bartenders Rediscover a Childhood Treat: Cereal Milk D Sharon Pruitt/flickr

Chefs and Bartenders Rediscover a Childhood Treat: Cereal Milk

The food world is experimenting with the sweet, colorful liquid left in cereal bowls everywhere—but the trend isn't all that new

Good News: Alcohol Doesn't Actually Kill Brain Cells Juan Ocampo/Getty Images

Good News: Alcohol Doesn't Actually Kill Brain Cells

Too many drinks can make you forget—but that doesn't mean they're turning what's inside beer helmets everywhere to mush

A Whale of a Cocktail Ingredient Peter Kaminski/flickr

A Whale of a Cocktail Ingredient

Long cherished by perfume makers, ambergris, a substance produced by sperm whales, is musky, expensive, and the focus of a burgeoning cocktail trend

« Previous

On Newsstands Now

Subscribe and SAVE 59%
10 issues JUST $2.45/COPY

The Atlantic Monthly

David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)