Kentucky – Flung

A Prodigal Daughter’s Guide to Lexington, KY

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:51:01 +0000

When I was growing up there in the eighties and nineties, Lexington, Kentucky couldn’t have been called a destination. When people did come there, it was for the horse country, the races at Keeneland perhaps, or maybe a basketball game at Rupp Arena. They certainly didn’t come for the food–or the drink, for that matter, despite Lexington’s surrounding countryside holding nearly all of the world’s bourbon distilleries. Before the aughts, in fact, the bourbon industry struggled with the prospect that […]

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6 Fascinating Facts About Bourbon from ‘Bourbon Empire’

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 21:41:43 +0000

As is my wont, I only took an interest in Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey, Reid Mitenbuler’s engrossing book on the history of America’s quintessential liquor, after returning from a trip to Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail earlier this summer—it’s a repeat of my approach to guidebooks in general, which I always buy before the trip, but fail to read mostly until I get home from it. And so Bourbon Empire is a guidebook of sorts, sifting through an […]

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On the Kentucky Bourbon Trail

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:52:55 +0000

Twenty years ago, the Bourbon Trail didn’t exist. Before 1999, when the Kentucky Distillers’ Association created the concept, tourism to the state’s bourbon distilleries wasn’t much of a thing, and it took a few years to catch on. To wit: In 2003 my mother and I headed to the Buffalo Trace distillery, maker of its eponymous bourbon as well as the impossible-to-procure Pappy van Winkle, on the outskirts of Frankfort. We arrived shortly before the visitor center closed. One man […]

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Lexington, KY –> LaGuardia on Delta Flight 5252

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:05:32 +0000

In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better informed in an age of frustration, obfuscation and increasingly unfriendly skies. Here, we review the Interjet route from Mexico City to Huatulco, on the coast of Oaxaca and the most convenient gateway to that oceanside region. LEX –> LGA Flight: Delta flight DL 5252, two hours and three minutes long, operated by ExpressJet DBA Delta Connection. Date and Time of Flight: June […]

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