Finally, I came to the end of the labor-intensive process. The orange bitters had steeped, it had been crushed, it had been filtered, it had rested. The last stage had involved mixing together the high-octane orange peel-infused alcohol with water and finally with...

A youthful old master is showing his works in San Francisco's John Pence Gallery through March 10. The one-man show by Noah Buchanan fills a spacious room with a large suite of consummate realist oil paintings and drawings reminiscent of the work of Ingres, Odd...

After two weeks of slumbering in 100 proof grain alcohol, my alchemical mixture of Seville orange peels, coriander, fennel seeds, gentian and quassia bark was ready for stage two on the road to becoming orange bitters. After pouring the alcohol—now tinged a pale...