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Articles By Wayne Curtis

Imbibe Contributing Editor Wayne Curtis is a designated drinker, freelance writer, contributing editor to The Atlantic and online columnist at The American Scholar. His favorite drink is the Sazerac, which makes perfect sense considering he calls New Orleans home.

Election Season Taft and the Julep

Wayne Curtis examines the peculiar intersection of cocktails and politics.

Florestan Club

The tale of how a cocktail first mixed at a private club in the Gilded Age escaped into the wild.

Hallelujah Cocktail

The story of a saloonkeeper trolling an evangelist during Prohibition.

Cream Cocktails Mixopedia

The rise and fall of cream drinks.

Drake's Plantation Bitters

Wayne Curtis explores the history.

holiday drinks

How the holiday cocktail has evolved from a traditional libation to an immersive experience.

Millionaire Cocktail

A classic cocktail that could make anyone feel like a millionaire with a few sips and modest outlay.

mixopedia cooling drinks

What the perspiring generations in the pre-AC era drank to cool down.

Futurity cocktail

A drink that never really disappeared yet never really caught on.

Mixopedia Black Nail

How the Irish version of the Rusty Nail factored into Irish whiskey's survival.

When a U.S. president found himself challenged over an act of diplomacy: to drink or not to drink.

fresco cocktail

Why this perfectly good name for a cocktail is now up for grabs.

FDR Martini Repeal Day

The story behind FDR's legendary cocktail hours and his first post-Repeal drink.

Neal Bodenheimer

How the New Orleans native helped shape the city's bar scene.

Mixopedia city cocktails

Why some city-centric cocktails never got enshrined in the canon of classics.

Coconut Willie

In 1937, Hawai‘i came to New York.

How the New Orleans bartender has left her mark on the Crescent City's bar scene.

With Turning Tables, Folkes is helping underrepresented communities kickstart careers in the bar world.