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  • Slow Drink Week

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    It's Slow Drink Week in New York City this week — and no, that doesn't mean the bartenders dawdle, or that you're forced to drink sloe gin (not that that would be a problem.)  Rather, it's a spinoff of the "Slow Food" movement, which celebrates artisanal, sustainable, and basically non-industrial food practices.  Because attention to…

  • Jeopardy! – Potent Potables

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    Any regular reader of this blog should have no trouble whatsoever solving most if not all of these clues from an episode of Jeopardy! from last week. Click through for the full set: I’d have posted this the day it aired, but I’m behind on my watching.

  • Jeopardy! – Potent Potables

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    Any regular reader of this blog should have no trouble whatsoever solving most if not all of these clues from an episode of Jeopardy! from last week. Click through for the full set: I’d have posted this the day it aired, but I’m behind on my watching.

  • The Final Presidential Debate Drinking Game (Probably)

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    The problem with most drinking games is that there’s a lot of having to manage what drink goes with what action. Really, if you’re going to actually conduct one of these things, it’s best to stick to one thing and treat it like a one-line bingo game. The Washington Post’s Sleuth column has a handydandy…

  • The Final Presidential Debate Drinking Game (Probably)

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    The problem with most drinking games is that there’s a lot of having to manage what drink goes with what action. Really, if you’re going to actually conduct one of these things, it’s best to stick to one thing and treat it like a one-line bingo game. The Washington Post’s Sleuth column has a handydandy…

  • MxMo Submission: Careful, Man, There’s A Beverage Here!

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    The Mixology Monday theme this month is "Guilty Pleasures."  Like it or not, many cocktailians (including , um, yours truly) raise their noses in the air. It can be part of truly appreciating what you’ve spent a great deal of time contemplating, but it can also come across as base snobbery.  As host Stevi Deter…

  • Drinky Linky

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    A few interesting links I’ve run across recently: the NYT contemplates the Negroni: "A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging, the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which is just one reason no one has ever ordered one at a swim-up bar at a resort pool. Each sip…

  • In case your arms get tired, poor baby…

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    Because doing it yourself is so hard?, originally uploaded by czeltic girl. From Czeltic Girl, a cocktailian with an eye for the absurd. (This might be useful for your Ramos Gin Fizzes, but you certainly can’t get a crystal-clear Martini after shaking it.)

  • In case your arms get tired, poor baby…

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    Because doing it yourself is so hard?, originally uploaded by czeltic girl. From Czeltic Girl, a cocktailian with an eye for the absurd. (This might be useful for your Ramos Gin Fizzes, but you certainly can’t get a crystal-clear Martini after shaking it.)

  • Is France Really Going Sour On Wine?

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    Recent government decisions in France severely restricting wine advertising and wine writing are being met, quite understandably, with protests from the French wine industry and French wine aficionados: * A French court ruled that newspaper and magazine articles on wine must contain health warnings, in much the same way the United States requires tobacco advertising…