jamaican-rum

[caption id="attachment_74868" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Hotelier and music producer Jon Baker (center) dines across from Anthony Bourdain at Trident Castle in Port Antonio, Jamaica, during the filming of CNN's Parts Unknown.[/caption] "Do you recognize these, Tony?" asks Jon Baker. Sitting across the long stately banquet table under a glinting crystal chandelier, CNN's Anthony Bourdain looks…

Since Three Dots and a Dash opened this summer, fans of tiki-style cocktails drinks have a home in Chicago. But there’s more to this subterranean tropical paradise than kitschy totems, Martin Denny music and wonderful drinks. Paul McGee now has a home for his rapidly growing collection of more than 200 bottles of rum. We…

If rum isn’t the spirit of the summer than I don’t know what is. It goes into festive piña coladas, classic Hemingway daiquiris and all-too-drinkable mojitos – or simply into a glass with an ice cube for a sweet after-dinner sipper. Indeed, rum is very much a spirit to be enjoyed on its own. Maybe…

In 1942, World War II Commander Ian Fleming was sent to Jamaica by Britain’s Navel Intelligence service on a secret mission. He fell in love with the island after only three days. When the war ended, the debonair Englishman returned to Jamaica, purchased 15 acres of land in the famous banana port of Oracabessa and…