Category: Seen Elsewhere
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Drinky Linky: Bloomsday (+1) Edition
Go Latino!, originally uploaded by Globe Trodden. I know it's really a day when you should be drinking a "good glass of Burgundy" at Davy Byrne's, (What do you mean? It's June 17th. –Ed. (Yeah, but I started writing this post yesterday.) Hmmmph. –Ed.) but here's a roundup of things mixological that I've found interesting…
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Drinko de Mayo
Yes, it's May 5th today, so that means that for the past few weeks your hosts here at Cocktailians have been bombarded with press releases for seasonal drinks. Some holidays have natural cocktail themes — Irish whiskey for St. Patrick's Day, et cetera — but others don't. (You should see some of the more inane…
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Drinko de Mayo
Yes, it's May 5th today, so that means that for the past few weeks your hosts here at Cocktailians have been bombarded with press releases for seasonal drinks. Some holidays have natural cocktail themes — Irish whiskey for St. Patrick's Day, et cetera — but others don't. (You should see some of the more inane…
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Drinky Linky: Getting Back In The Swing Of Things Edition
Some other things that've caught my eye lately: Shaker Faces. Heh. (Someone needs to put these side-by-side with Cooking Issues' Skoal! Project); Paul Clarke on the best bourbon cocktails; and of course tomorrow is Derby Day. Fittingly, the mint julep, the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby, just got enshrined in the Cocktail Hall of…
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Drinky Linky: Getting Back In The Swing Of Things Edition
Some other things that've caught my eye lately: Shaker Faces. Heh. (Someone needs to put these side-by-side with Cooking Issues' Skoal! Project); Paul Clarke on the best bourbon cocktails; and of course tomorrow is Derby Day. Fittingly, the mint julep, the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby, just got enshrined in the Cocktail Hall of…
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Celebrity Bartender Rachel Maddow
Doesn't this sound like fun? From Politico's "Playbook" today: MSNBC’s “THE AFTER PARTY” following Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will feature Rachel Maddow tending bar, mixing Vieux Carres, Primm's Cups, rum daiquiris. The bash at the Mellon Auditorium, the biggest venue ever for an after-party, is being masterminded by Philip Dufour. MSNBC will have…
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The Falling Water Cocktail Machine.
This seems to be the season of the Rube Goldberg device (between this & the latest OK Go video, which is always a harbinger of trends of one kind or another), and here, we have a wall-mounted and appropriately intricate device that produces a greyhound on demand. Extra points for using many of the links…
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The Falling Water Cocktail Machine.
This seems to be the season of the Rube Goldberg device (between this & the latest OK Go video, which is always a harbinger of trends of one kind or another), and here, we have a wall-mounted and appropriately intricate device that produces a greyhound on demand. Extra points for using many of the links…
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Bootlegger Blues
This week's The Moth podcast tells a whirlwind story of how L. Gabrielle Penebaz of The Saint Eve discovered absinthe through her lust for Donald Sutherland, and how her pursuit of just one taste of the real concoction led her to create a short-lived but enthusiastic community of partygoers who wanted the same thing. (Here's a…
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Bootlegger Blues
This week's The Moth podcast tells a whirlwind story of how L. Gabrielle Penebaz of The Saint Eve discovered absinthe through her lust for Donald Sutherland, and how her pursuit of just one taste of the real concoction led her to create a short-lived but enthusiastic community of partygoers who wanted the same thing. (Here's a…