Reading & Drinking
Where Hobby Meets Happy Hour
A few times a month, you can find a new post here exploring the urgent matters of Reading & Drinking. These posts will take a brief but intense look at a skillfully-crafted story, book, or other medium and pair it with a unique cocktail. Sometimes, too, you may find some opinion pieces here but, in that case, at the least you’ll have a cocktail in hand.
If you have suggestions, for works or spirits or cocktails, send me an email at BTimm.Writing@gmail.com, DM me on Instagram at @Reading.And.Drinking, or find me on Bluesky at Readinganddrinking.bsky.social.
I look forward to Reading & Drinking with you.
Desire, Coffee, and Studies Abroad
“Study Abroad”, written by Cassie Burkhardt and published online at Rattle, is a bittersweet reminder why we look back through the windows of our memory, and its cocktail is an espresso martini that replaces vodka with cognac, creating a bold, cherry-spiced core around which crème de cacao, cherry heering, and chocolatey amari are wrapped.