The Spirit World

The first time I met Rob Thomas of the band Matchbox Twenty, I wanted to punch him in the face. I was not yet 20 at the time, which means he was something like 26 or 27. That second single was all over both of the town’s two megawatt alterna-rock stations, and I just didn’t […]

To coincide with the 5th annual “Tales of the Cocktail” conference in New Orleans running through Sunday, 7/22, Cocktails on the Fly a new online TV show presented by ON Networks, is telling quite a tale of its own.
In a new three-part series, hostess Alberta “Flighty Hostess” Straub takes viewers on an informational yet […]

For anyone who has ever wondered how to make a White Russian salute, a Mint Julep take notice or a Tom Collins respect you in the morning, look no further. Cocktails on the Fly (http://www.cocktailsonthefly.tv/) debuts as a virtual salon, catering to viewers interested in bringing the same level of creativity to their cocktails […]

Lara is a geek, wife, and mother of a soon-to-be teenage daughter living in Seattle. After many years sacrificed in high tech, Lara quit her well-paying job to pursue her dream of writing. She now spends her days creating as many lists and projects as possible, mostly of the food or photography related varieties, to […]

Sal DeTraglia is too small for football, too short for basketball and too hyperactive for baseball. He’s a lousy dancer and a worse singer.
So what’s a boy like this to do for fun? Cocktails!
Sal DeTraglia is also an American expat living, working, writing and drinking in Spain—a nation in which cocktail […]

Nika Boyce is a scientist, writer, food photographer, homeschooling mom of two, living in New England. She first drank Little Kings Cream Ale in college in New Orleans and has been a Guinness drinker ever since. While not likely to drink wine or beer with most meals, she is very interested in exploring […]

Donavan Hall is a writer living on Long Island. He’s a veteran beer drinker, beer brewer, beer traveler, and beer podcaster. He writes about beer for Well Fed’s The Spirit World and other publications including A Good Beer Blog, Lenndevours, and his own blog, Catch & Release. You can listen to Donavan talk about his […]

Robert Hess, a Director at Microsoft, traces his interest in cocktail to a childhood fascination of bartenders who effortlessly transformed the contents of the bottles around them into gleaming jewels of refreshment. Eventually he took action on these early memories, absorbing all he could about the classic art of mixology. Using his culinary training as […]

Brenda Pederson has been enamored with cocktails since she was 6 or 7. Well, at least she was enamored with the teeny, tiny swords her parents would bring home after a night out! Once she figured out where to get those little swords she started a journey to collect as many of them […]