Yolanda Evans is an award-winning freelance writer with more than 18 years of experience covering dining, cocktails, travel and lifestyle. In 2022, Yolanda won an IACP award for Narrative Beverage Writing Without Recipes for her profile piece on Ten to One Rum founder Marc Farrell for Food and Wine. These days, Yolanda resides in Berlin and her work has appeared in Michelin Guide, National Geographic , The Smithsonian, Good Beer Haunting, CNN Travel, Afar, Washington Post, Imbibe, Vinepair, Food 52, Food & Wine, Punch, Travel + Leisure, Wine Enthusiast, Lonely Planet, Thrillist, Spruce Eats and Architectural Digest just to name a few.
Historical and contemporary contributions by Black and Brown mixologists are still underserved
In the hills of North Carolina, the Eda Rhyne Distillery is reinventing an Italian classic