Cask Strength 1:1 (What better time than 10:30am for a dozen whiskeys?)

Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

We’re are not drinking; we’re learning.
~ Francesco Lafranconi
10 July 2009
10:32am
Cesar Cestari, master distiller of Cabana Cachaça, was among the panelists joining Francesco Lafranconi for “Cask Strength 1:1” today at Tales of the Cocktail. The [...]

Absinthe Spoons and Julep Cups

Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

The New Orleans antique store Lucullus beckons culinary collectors from around the world. The shop, at 610 Chartes Street, deals strictly in food-related antiques. And not your flea-market chic kitsch such as Aunt FiFi’s [...]

From Brewer to Distiller, a Change Both Rich and Strange

Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
into something rich and strange

~ The Tempest (Act I, [...]