IRELAND HAS GIVEN us much, in terms of potables. For green-wearing day on March 17, we Americans are blessed with a fine array of themed drinks: Irish whiskey; Irish cream liqueur; black-and-tans for ...

Banned for centuries, now celebrated, it's time to try an Irish quaff that isn't whiskey or Guinness. For over 1,000 years, Ireland’s verdant hills and misty moors have held a secret — and no, we aren ...

Poitin, a long-banned Irish moonshine, is re-emerging from a checkered history of legend and prohibition to become its homeland’s most trending spirit. While American moonshine is typically made from ...

Its nickname is “mountain dew,” but it may be better known as Irish moonshine. Poitin, the ancient ancestor of distilled drinks, is uniquely Irish and woven into the very fabric of Ireland’s folklore.

Talk about a melting pot. At two-month-old Houston restaurant Poitín, the executive chef, Dominick Lee, is from New Orleans, where he grew up eating muffulettas and accompanying his aunt on weekly ...

Believed to be the oldest spirit in the world, poitín (pronounced put-cheen in English) has been handmade in Ireland since the sixth century. Long before the advent of whiskey, the rural moonshine was ...

My father-in-law, a thick-brogued Kerryman, was given a small bottle of Bronx-made poitin --Irish moonshine--by a friend and never touched it. He left it sit on the shelf in his Long Island home for ...

Background: Crow started a community garden when she was in high school, “cultivating a love for dirt, chemistry and growing things,” but then went on to attended St. Edwards University in Austin for ...

(CNN) – Donegal is Ireland’s most northerly county, where you’ll find spectacular sea cliffs, rugged mountains, and secluded beaches. And at the top of this county is Inishowen, Ireland’s largest ...

One of the firecrackers in the culinary arsenal at Kiran's restaurant has left for a new gig. Dominick Lee, the former executive sous chef at Kiran Verma's plush Indian restaurant, has been named ...