• San Franciscans love Fernet, but it’s a flash in the pan compared with the city’s longtime favorite cocktail, the Pisco Punch. [SF Chronicle]
• A Sausalito man accused of torching a warehouse full of wine may change his plea away from not guilty. [Press Democrat]
• Oakland is suffering in this economy, but new restaurants with cocktail programs are doing great, most notably Grand Tavern. [Oakland Tribune]
• Explorers will drill into the Antarctic ice to recover bottles of Scotch lost there 100 years ago. [AP/Google]
• Three homeless men in Moscow killed another man, ate part of him, and sold the rest to a butcher shop. [NYP]
• A Colombian cooking school has invented a “love dessert” made of passion fruit mousse — oh, and Viagra. [NYDN]
