Posts Tagged ‘alcoholism’

Some Recommended Reading…

Two recent pieces about alcohol, while not exactly beer-related, are worthy enough to bring to your attention. The first, by the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell, challenges our assumptions that alcohol consumption dulls experience and makes the drinker less attuned to his immediate environment. Instead, Gladwell argues, alcohol's real effects are to encourage a kind of [...]

You Think You Drank a Lot Over the Memorial Day Weekend?

Not that you should care, but for the first time in years, Y&H has given himself permission not to read a food-related book. Instead, I'm burying my nose in an earlier work by Bill Buford, who has written a great food book in the past. Some friends gave me a copy of Buford's Among the [...]