The evolution of holiday punch

​We’ve all come a long way from grain alcohol and fruit juice, but the big bowl of holiday punch hasn’t been updated accordingly — until now.

While tracing the history of the classic party drink, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer makes the case that punch will be coming back to high-end bars. The article also offers a compendium of punch recipes with champagne, rum, vodka, Irish whiskey and berry liqueur as a base.