Cat Lady Preserves

Handsomely packaged homemade jams by graphic designer Sumayya Alsenan

After quitting her job in 2010, graphic designer Sumayya Alsenan decided to take some time to figure out what she wanted from her next position. In the absence of a daily routine, Alsenan started channeling her energy into the kitchen by cooking for her roommate. “I needed more and more challenging projects, and that’s where the jam making started,” she explains. “It took me five …

Oola Flavored Vodka

Pepper, citrus and rosemary infusions from a Seattle-based microdistillery

Between 50-year-old whiskey and 19th-century curaçao, vodka has a tendency to fall by the wayside in our hunt for sipping spirits, but a recent encounter wtih Oola‘s flavored vodkas has certainly changed that. Oola, a micro-distillery in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, operates under a “grain-to-glass” mantra—a selling point that comes through in the rawness of the spirits, which in the case of vodka …

Highland Park Loki

The mischievous Norse god embodied in a complex 15-year-old single malt

Inspired by the mischievous and mercurial Nordic god, the amber liquid of the newly released Loki seems to capture the unpredictable shape-shifting nature of its namesake. Matured in both Spanish sherry and heavily peated casks, the flavors offer sweetness and spice with a layer of smoke that distinguishes the Loki bottling from classic Highland Park whiskies. “The whisky transforms itself through nosing and tasting into …