You cannot get more classic than a classic Old Fashioned. This humble concoction of four ingredients—whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water—is quite literally the cocktail that started it all. It was that ...

What does it feel like to be old? Not middle-aged, or late-middle-aged, but one of the members of the fastest-growing demographic: the “oldest old,” those aged eighty-five and above? This has been the ...

The Old Fashioned is as classic a cocktail as exists in the American canon, yet over the generations, the core concept of combining spirit, sugar, and bitters has gotten muddled (sorry, not sorry!).

"Old" people are getting older. While this might seem obvious, a statistical perspective provides interesting insights into living and working in today's longevity revolution. Research from John ...

The world's most famous whiskey cocktail is also the simplest to make. Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in ...

Once people are past middle age, they’re old. That’s how life progresses: You’re young, you’re middle-aged, then you’re old. Of course, calling someone old is generally not considered polite, because ...

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered ...