It's the afternoon, and you deserve a break. Sit back, pour yourself a glass, and enjoy these food stories from around the Internet.
Saveur has a recipe for a medicinal cocktail, called a Rock and Rye. We've always known that a surefire way to cure a cold is with some good old-fashioned whiskey. [Saveur]
Pissed-off Belgian dairy farmers sprayed fresh milk at cops during a protest against falling milk prices in Europe. Messy. [Daily Beast]
A new beer tax in France has some people up in arms--except most French people. [NY Times]
Read this critique of a **New York Times article that links hipsterdom to Martha Stewart; not only because it accurately calls shenanigans, but also because it calls M. Stew a "raging kookaburra terror." [Gawker via NY Times]
You will never, ever have as much fun watching someone wash dishes as you will with this video. If only we had seen this pre-Thanksgiving cleanup. [Grub Street]
What goes best with ramen? Ji-biru, Japanese craft beer. And cold weather. [Washington Post]
Starbucks's China market is slated to be the second largest outside the U.S. in 2014. Which isn't all that surprising, since China makes up 19 percent of the world's population. [Huffington Post]
Every whiskey drink we have. It's sniffle season, y'all!