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While I was working up my presentation for the “Cocktails With a Kick: Absinthe Returns to America” session at Tales of the Cocktail, I embarked on an extended search through old bar guides in search of attractive — and repulsive — Read More...
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I’d like to write about all the great drinks I enjoyed in New Orleans, but to be honest, after the first couple of Sazeracs everything started running together until, a week later, I boarded the flight home, still bleary eyed and happy and reeking Read More...
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Filed under: Teas , Whisky , Recipes , Fruit , America , Spirits , Ingredient Spotlight , Guilty Pleasures , Summer Over the past few summers, cherry-based cocktails have become something of a signature for me, to the point whereupon being proposed to Read More...
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Filed under: Beer , Cocktails , Slashfood Ate , America , Spirits , Non-alcoholic , Holidays , Summer It's only July 3rd and my foodie forefathers have already dished out plenty of Independence Day eats in such posts as American Flag Cakes and Delicious Read More...
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Filed under: Teas , Snacks , Recipes , How To , Summer Are you an avid tea drinker looking for a different way to enjoy your tea this summer? A lot of tea drinkers go iced in the warm summer months, some even adding lemonade to their iced tea, but there Read More...
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“Let me tell you, suh, there’s only one likker that’s properly qualified to caress a gentleman’s palate in the way a gentleman’s palate deserves to be caressed; and that’s red likker — honest rye, if there’s Read More...
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I’m back, still breathing, after an unplanned two-week hiatus. During this vacation from blogging I spent a whirlwind couple of days in San Francisco, ushering out Cocktail Week at Absinthe and sitting (briefly) at Neyah White’s bar at Nopa, Read More...
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I quit.
Okay, so I said it a lot nicer than that, and I gave plenty of notice so as not to burn my bridges and all that kind of thing, but while my presentation lacked the cathartic release I’d long hoped for, the fact remains: I’m leaving Read More...
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“A Time-Tested Favorite from Venezuela”
So wrote Charles H. Baker, traveler, raconteur, and possibly the ultimate fan of exotic tippling.
Yesterday I posted the details from an e-mail exchange I recently had with New York bartender and writer Read More...
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Filed under: Coffee , Vodka , Magazines , Cocktails , Spirits , Liqueurs My fashion-forward roommate reads Nylon Magazine , and I was flipping through it the other day when I came across the drink of the month: the Grapes of Wrath martini. The Grapes Read More...
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Two years.
I hadn’t pointed it out earlier — thanks to all the other things I’ve been wrangling with lately, I kind of forgot — but this month marks the second anniversary of the launch of Mixology Monday (this month hosted by Read More...
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Filed under: Coffee , Business , Raves & Reviews , On the Blogs , Coffee shops So, I've gotta hand it to Starbucks. Its new site, My Starbucks Idea , is actually...well, a good idea . You sign up and simply type in a suggestion that you think the Read More...
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It’s been quiet around here recently. Very quiet.
In case anyone was quietly wondering if I’d gone on the wagon and lost all interest in this thing, let me knock away that idea right away. Instead, I’ve been busy with another project Read More...
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…as did my guidance counselor, while dissuading me from pursuing anything ambitious in life.
Now, apparently the San Francisco Chronicle thinks so, too — see, it’s right there next to the byline: “Special to the Chronicle“. Read More...
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Tonight’s drink comes with a tip of the hat to Rick at Kaiser Penguin, who is hosting this month’s Mixology Monday with the theme, Limit: One. Thanks to this theme, Rick has created an event that is guaranteed to be followed by “Hangover Read More...
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