Happy Hour: Artist Mark Adams lights the way to the colorful world of cocktails | COMMENTARY

Adams’ wife, Susan, directed him to a video of David Lebovitz, author of “Drinking French: The Iconic Cocktails, Apéritifs, and Café Traditions of France, with 160 Recipes,” and suddenly a door opened to a whole new world of spirits, liqueurs, modifiers and expensive cocktail cherries to which Adams had paid no attention.