Beverages
Coffee
The world's most popular ritual is also one of its most quietly complicated crops.
Craft Beer
One change to US federal law in 1978 is the reason your neighborhood brewery exists at all.
Whiskey
A bottle can legally call itself bourbon only if it's made in America — but nothing requires it to be made in Kentucky, despite what most people assume.
Wine
It's fermented grape juice, and yet somehow an entire industry exists around swirling it, sniffing it, and arguing about it.