Legendary writer Hunter S. Thompson's holy trinity for inspiration was marijuana, cocaine, and Chartreuse. In his song "'Til the Money Runs Out," Tom Waits sings about buying "a pint of green ...
Chartreuse is having its moment—one of many over 400 years. The complex green and yellow liqueurs are hot among Washington bartenders, whether mixed into cocktails or taken straight. Here’s what to ...
On a recent autumn afternoon, Paul Einbund bustles behind the bar at his San Francisco restaurant, The Morris. He extracts a tall bottle with a distinctive green, black and silver label from the small ...
Chartreuse is hard to find but it is still a key ingredient in many classic cocktails including the Last Word (pictured). Chartreuse is special. That’s what Daniel Grajewski, senior director of wine ...
This mashup between a Last Word and a Paper Plane has become a modern mezcal masterpiece. The Naked & Famous is an equal-parts cocktail consisting of mezcal, Aperol, Yellow Chartreuse, and lime juice.
It’s unusually difficult to sum up the Naked and Famous, or at least it seems to be. For a mezcal cocktail, it is beloved by pretty much everyone who tries it, and just obscure enough that its fans ...
Alaska, as a state, is not for beginners. Anyone who’s ever spent any time there can attest to that. Its startling beauty is matched by its danger. It feels like America without the net. It is, first ...
The quiet Carthusian monks, isolated in the mountains of France, are being much talked about lately following the release last year of a documentary, “Carthusian – Into Great Silence.” But cocktail ...
Chartreuse — is it green or is it yellow? The answer is a bit of both. The color chartreuse is often described as being closer to an acid yellow than green. Regardless, chartreuse remains one of the ...