personal development

Edibles & Potables: Mediterranean food is fine, so leave “diet” out of it (2026)

Let’s follow up. Your faithful digital editor’s pescetarianism has proven to be sustainable, for the most part. My vague culinary objective for the past five years, and probably long before, has been to steer my food intake toward a Mediterranean-style regimen, with vegetables appearing in greater quantities and meat, while permitted, consumed far more rarely […]

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Hip Hops: A philosophy of beer — and goodbye Alan “Hair of the Dog” Sprints

My beer column today is sponsored by me, and why not?: The 40 Years in Beer Compendium: links, previews, and coming attractions. Eleven years ago, as I began to seriously contemplate departing the beer business I helped to found, there came an opportunity to visit Transylvania University in Lexington and chat with some of the […]

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Hip Hops: But what if brewing wasn’t supposed to be EZ?

A year and a half has elapsed since it was first revealed that beer would be “brewed” for the first time since the 19th century (was it ever?) in Georgetown, Indiana at a restaurant to be dubbed Rails & Ales Brew House. The time has arrived for the eatery’s soft opening days, and it plans […]

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Hip Hops: Duke Ellington, Madonna and the Western canon inform my beers

Just because the “Hip Hops” column is about beer, it doesn’t mean that beer must be the subject of a “Hip Hops” column. Rather, it might be possible to make an indirect yet principled point about beer while barely mentioning it, happily freeing those afflicted with our current era’s short attention spans to engage in […]

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