It's never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free
| The country’s latest lifestyle trend: sobriety | | My local corner grocery store now has several shelves dedicated to fancy non-alcoholic beverages and booze-free cocktail ingredients. It didn’t always. A few years ago, Seedlip appeared as a kind of booze-free gin substitute, kicking off a beverage revolution and giving sober party-goers something fancier to drink than club soda. Mocktail recipe books appeared. Soon bars were charging $14 for drinks they called “temperance cocktails.” The sober and “sober-curious” movement is now sweeping the country. Booze-free bottle shops, bars and social clubs are popping up. Is the next generation not drinking as much? Have cannabis gummies replaced chardonnay as the de-stresser of choice? Are we abandoning the bottle in reaction to new information about the pernicious side effects of alcohol? At Maclean’s, we wanted to better understand the trend, so we asked Caitlin Walsh Miller, a writer in Montreal, to investigate. Her story, “Sober Nation,” is a delightful assessment of the new booze-free lifestyle, its products and its root causes. –Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief | | | | |
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| | | FIRST PERSON | | Why I Chose Not to Have Kids | | Jenna Ross wasn’t sure she wanted to become a parent. Everyone always told her she’d change her mind, and she admits she might have—if not for climate change. “When it comes to having children, as I sift through different scenarios and necessary lifestyle changes I’d have to make, I always dead-end at one thing: the climate crisis,” she writes in this essay for Maclean’s. | | |
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| | | A Vulnerable Memoir | | | | After two award-winning novels, Syrian-Canadian author and former Washington Post journalist Danny Ramadan is turning his talents inward... reluctantly. In his newest book, Crooked Teeth, he’s swapped the escapism of fiction for the discomfort and vulnerability of autobiography. The book begins during his childhood as a lonely gay kid in Damascus, where he was adopted by the underground queer community. Ramadan later recounts being detained for six weeks in Syria for his queer activism, and his journey to Canada, where he landed as a refugee. | | |
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