Sue Marsula of Baldwin Borough loves making Christmas cookies, even if it means waking up at 6 a.m.

Pittsburgh is awash with fine places to drink all sorts of alcoholic drinks, but the best spots to savor local libations might be right where they’re made, in one of our growing collection of wineries, breweries, distilleries, cideries and meaderies.

Thirty tons of grapes arrive in two seasonal shipments at the Roberto Clemente Museum in Lawrenceville every year.

There are plenty of reasons to go bar hopping in Pittsburgh, and we don’t mean the kind where you get yourself sloshed silly.

A gustatory burst punctuated the last few weeks of 2015 like the high flames of a flaring kitchen grill, closing out with the opening of four restaurants — Morcilla in Lawrenceville; Whitfield at the Ace Hotel and Muddy Waters Oyster Bar, both in East Liberty; and Smallman Galley in the Strip District — which were instant hot spots.

His technique is meticulous, and his food as exquisite as it is delicious.