Haro Wine Festival Batalla de Vino is one of the most famous festivals in Spain. It’s a wine battle in Haro where Rioja red wine is used as ammunition. It takes place every year on June 29th, Saint Peter’s Day, in the heart of the Rioja wine region. This...
Peychaud’s Bitters In the 1830s, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, a Creole pharmacist in New Orleans, invented a gentian-based bitter that turns cocktails reddish. Peychaud came from the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and compared to Angostura bitters,...
William Cuthbert Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962) was a Mississippi-born novelist, poet, and screenwriter. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949, and twice the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1955, 1963). He is considered one of the most important...
