When it comes to vodka, there is more to know than if you prefer it on the rocks or with cranberry juice. The Herald recently interviewed Professor Emerita of History Patricia Herlihy to discuss the ...

Vodka is maybe one of the most misunderstood spirits on the shelf these days. For years, decades even, every bartender and spirits “expert” in the West would tell you that vodka was a neutral spirit ...

In this book, Patricia Herlihy takes us for a ride through vodka?s history, from its mysterious origins in a Slavic country in the fourteenth century to its current transatlantic reign over Europe and ...