Liza began her writing career as a theater critic in Boston, but she quickly realized that the bar was the place to go to find guaranteed drama and comedy on a nightly basis. Her work covering spirits has taken her to the top point of Scotland, where the air is thick with peat smoke and sea spray, the depths of cellars in Cognac, where the blends stowed in barrels are silky and rich, and the sun-drenched agave fields of Guadalajara – not to mention some killer parties in London and New York. Raised in New York and based in Boston, Liza covers the spirits industry from sun-up to sundown, from the distilling and production that starts at dawn to the 9-to-5 business inner-workings and marketing strategies to the parties that run late into the night. She was recently a judge in Whisky Magazine’s 2009 World Whisky Awards. She also covers music, theater, visual arts, design, and style. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Whisky Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, The Christian Science Monitor, and DailyCandy.

She loves her job: she has bowled with the 2007 Boston Celtics rookies (Leon Powe won), ate dim sum in Boston’s Chinatown with uber-chef Thomas Keller, engaged in a limerick smack-down with Christopher Hitchens, had a steak with director Kevin Smith, swam outside in the Icelandic geothermal spas in 28-degree weather and, of course, sipped Cognacs and Scotches that are decades older than she is– all in the name of research.