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      Hollie Stephens

      Hollie Stephens

      Joined: Jul 1, 2021

      Hollie Stephens is an award-winning writer focused primarily on drinks, originally from the UK and currently residing in New Mexico, USA. Her work has appeared in Food52, Ferment, Wine Enthusiast, and other outlets.

      Today's vintners are creating new wine notes with ancient techniques.

      Amphorae Amore: Modern Winemakers Are Bringing Back an Ancient Tradition

      Mead is usually served in wine glasses.

      8 Fascinating Facts About Mead, the World's Oldest Alcoholic Drink

      An 1858 cartoon shows Death rowing down the polluted River Thames.

      How London's Great Stink Turned the Tide of Victorian Pollution

      Nicholas Free/iStock via Getty Images

      9 Delicious Facts About Oysters

      Edgar Allan Poe is depicted in an engraved portrait, circa 1845.

      9 Intriguing Facts About Edgar Allan Poe

      The life of Edgar Allan Poe, author of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and other horror stories, was as strange as his fiction.

      Hollie Stephens
      Napoleon Sarony, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

      9 Fascinating Facts About Oscar Wilde

      'My own business bores me to death; I prefer other people's,' Oscar Wilde once said. Read on for more about this master wit, poet, and playwright.

      Hollie Stephens
      Frederick James Havell's painting, "The Double Lock and East Entrance to the Islington Tunnel, Regent's Canal" (1827), shows two horse-drawn canal boats passing through the lock, approaching the tunnel. Construction of the Regent's Canal began in 1812.

      Blasts on the Barges: The Dangerous Lives of England’s Early Canal Workers

      England's canal system powered the Industrial Revolution and Victorian prosperity—but it had a dangerous side.

      Hollie Stephens
      Stale sandwich, anyone?

      How Stale Sandwiches Helped Save New York's 19th Century Drinking Establishments

      New York's bars have an impressive history of employing creative strategies for getting around limitations—including, in the late 1800s, serving sandwiches of dubious edibility in order to comply with restrictions on liquor service.

      Hollie Stephens
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