About this magazine
Asterisca is a small, occasional magazine about good taste — drinks, places, people, and the myths we build around them. Stories are researched as far as the record allows, and where the record gives out we say so: legends are printed, clearly labeled, because the legends are usually the point. N°01 is a field guide to twelve classic cocktails; N°02 audits what a Moroccan village built from eleven days of Jimi Hendrix.
Recipes, where they appear, are given in bar measures with metric equivalents and lean on the modern craft consensus. None of it is gospel. Taste as you go.
Set in Fraunces and Space Grotesk. Illustrations drawn in-house as vector line work. Built as a fast, static site — no trackers, no pop-ups asking about your feelings — and served from the edge by Cloudflare Pages.
Drink less, drink better, drink water in between. If you’re not of legal drinking age where you are, we admire your research instincts — the travel stories are all yours.
All stories