I like to make up fantastical stories for people I see at dive bars. I can entertain myself for hours, subsisting on nothing more than sips from a sweating glass of vodka soda and my imagination. The ...

Back in the day, every self-respecting bar had a jar of pickled eggs nestled among the cheap booze, its sulfuric tang and briny essence a great way to sop up the contents of your liver at the end of ...

A cross between a dive bar and a greasy spoon, Rio de Janeiro’s beloved (and proudly filthy) hole-in-the wall joints are some of the most democratic spaces in a deeply unequal city. Samba has returned ...

The year was 2011. I was working my first editorial job in New York and my boss and I were leaving a Midtown hotel after attending some sort of media preview. As we walked by the fancy lobby bar, I ...

For many Brits, a beer at the pub washed down with a salty snack is no doubt one of life's greatest pleasures. What's more uncertain, it seems, is where exactly these Great British delicacies come ...

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Here's a culinary riddle for you: What do Moe's Tavern on "The Simpsons" and Amish buffets have in common? The answer: pickled eggs. Many home cooks still make this traditional food -- eggs purple ...