Noted essayist and tippler H. L. Mencken once wrote that the cocktail was "the greatest of all the contributions of the American way of life to the salvation of humanity." While Mencken's effusive evaluation of the cocktail might...

Cocktail party is a party where cocktails are served. Women may choose to wear what has become known as a cocktail dress. Although many believe the inventor of the cocktail party to be Alec Waugh of London, who in 1924 found a need for this pleasant...

The cocktail party is an all-purpose rite in darkest Hong Kong. It can be used to celebrate a betrothal, an anniversary or a national day, to gain face or to give face, to launch a business, to seal a contract or to reassure...

The invitations are in the mail, or the e-vites have been sent: There's no turning back now. This year it's your turn to hold the annual holiday cocktail party. Now you stand before your cookbooks looking for cocktail food, enough recipes to feed a...

Quarterback Tim Tebow grew up in Jacksonville and went to the Florida-Georgia game just about every year. Although he knows plenty about the storied rivalry, his memories are pretty much one-sided — much like the series has become.Tebow's earliest recollections begin around 1990, the same...

The clink of ice cubes in a glass, the lilt of laughter and some samba on the stereo -- of all social affairs, the cocktail party should be the simplest to plan and the easiest to execute. And if it weren’t so difficult to get...