America’s Oldest Drinking Club

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America’s Oldest Drinking Club The Schuylkill Fishing Company & Its Iconic Colonial Rum Punch In the heart of 18th-century Philadelphia, a group of influential men sought refuge from the bustling city along the serene banks of the Schuylkill River. Their retreat,...

Peychaud’s Bitters

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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

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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...