Author: vidiot
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The Wrath of Grapes
Rosé pour, originally uploaded by Vidiot. It’s not all cocktails here — this past Saturday, some friends and I went out to Long Island’s North Fork wine country for a brief tour of some vineyards and a little tasting. Some good wines, some shockingly bad ones, The LIRR’s “Wine Country One-Day Getaway was a very…
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The Wrath of Grapes
Rosé pour, originally uploaded by Vidiot. It’s not all cocktails here — this past Saturday, some friends and I went out to Long Island’s North Fork wine country for a brief tour of some vineyards and a little tasting. Some good wines, some shockingly bad ones, The LIRR’s “Wine Country One-Day Getaway was a very…
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Gin & Titonics, Anyone?
In the same vein as the perfectly spherical ice cubes heretofore mentioned, Fred has created a series of ice cube trays in the shape of everyone’s favorite maritime disaster. These Titanic-shaped ice cubes won’t sink, but they will make you & your guests feel like the kings of the world. And they seem small enough…
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Gin & Titonics, Anyone?
In the same vein as the perfectly spherical ice cubes heretofore mentioned, Fred has created a series of ice cube trays in the shape of everyone’s favorite maritime disaster. These Titanic-shaped ice cubes won’t sink, but they will make you & your guests feel like the kings of the world. And they seem small enough…
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A Mountain of Crushed Ice and an Ounce of Bitters
Tiare is a self-confessed "hopeless syrup, bitters, infusion geek" from Sweden who makes fantastic-looking cocktails topped with beautiful fruit garnishes, and takes amazing photographs of them, which you can view here in her Flickr set. She’s also started a blog called, A Mountain of Crushed Ice, that I’ll be following with great interest. I was…
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A Mountain of Crushed Ice and an Ounce of Bitters
Tiare is a self-confessed "hopeless syrup, bitters, infusion geek" from Sweden who makes fantastic-looking cocktails topped with beautiful fruit garnishes, and takes amazing photographs of them, which you can view here in her Flickr set. She’s also started a blog called, A Mountain of Crushed Ice, that I’ll be following with great interest. I was…
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Urawaza: How To Make Your Drinking Dollar Go Further
(or, why Red Bull is sometimes a good idea, amazingly enough) Given the personas we here at the Better Imbibers Bureau cultivate in public, it may come as a surprise that we sometimes have to stretch a short dollar out a little further. We’re not made of money; we just prefer to train for when…
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Urawaza: How To Make Your Drinking Dollar Go Further
(or, why Red Bull is sometimes a good idea, amazingly enough) Given the personas we here at the Better Imbibers Bureau cultivate in public, it may come as a surprise that we sometimes have to stretch a short dollar out a little further. We’re not made of money; we just prefer to train for when…
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Minimalist != Mixologist
I hate to slam the NYT twice in reasonably-quick succession, but I gotta say that I don’t care much for "Minimalist" Mark Bittman’s recipes. (does he test them? Why are my experiments with his "How To Cook Everything" cookbook largely failures, when failed recipes from other cookbooks — including Julia’s, Joy of Cooking, The Best…
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Minimalist != Mixologist
I hate to slam the NYT twice in reasonably-quick succession, but I gotta say that I don’t care much for "Minimalist" Mark Bittman’s recipes. (does he test them? Why are my experiments with his "How To Cook Everything" cookbook largely failures, when failed recipes from other cookbooks — including Julia’s, Joy of Cooking, The Best…