When I was growing up, my grandmother would pick my brother and me up from school on Fridays and take us straight to a diner where she and my grandfather had gone on some of their first dates. Our ...

A glass of fizzling root beer beside a brown bottle and bottle opener - Bhofack2/Getty Images A good caffeine boost is great for keeping us awake when we need it, but there are times when we want to ...

Frothy, sweet and deliciously complex, root beer is the kind of bubbly libation that’s exactly right on a hot day. It’s refreshing straight out of the can or bottle — and an instant treat poured over ...

It was approaching 100 degrees in Hermosillo, the capital of Mexican border state Sonora, in mid-April, and it wasn’t even noon. Tucked in the sparse corridors of an open-air market called Tianguis ...

Skidmore professor Christopher Mann and his children, Clara and Tim, evaluate samples of root beer to rank against other makers of the popular soft drink on Friday at their home in Saratoga Springs.