When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice.

For most of us, ice isn’t something we’ve thought about in detail since our high school science classes. For most of us, we pour some tap water into the ice trays, slam it in the freezer, and forget ...

Upscale bars depend on every small detail to create a refined experience, and even ice plays a part in that impression.

Camper English has, let’s just say, strong feelings about ice. “There’s not a huge difference between clear and cloudy ice in taste or melting speed,” he says. “But aesthetically, it’s a gargantuan ...

That's right. Enough of the cloudy cubes that look like plastic shapes floating in ice tea. Or blobs bobbing around in bourbon. Perfectly clear ice. So clear it's "read-a-newspaper-though-it" ice.

Pierce finds that the process of making ice sharpens her own sense of presence. Part of this is attributable to an awareness ...

A cup of water with ice in a natural background - P-fotography/Shutterstock When it comes to serving drinks at your dinner party, mastering the perfect cocktail ...

Back in the day, if you ordered a Harvey Wallbanger or a Long Island iced tea, nobody cared about how the ice cubes looked. Now that block of solid H2O, enjoyed in drinks by Americans since the early ...