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Category: Seen Elsewhere

  • 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…

  • TV’s Greatest Lushes

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    Because it’s Friday night, and also because what the hell: The Frisky lists TV’s top five female lushes, with examples. How Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous only managed to make #4 on this list (and combined, at that) baffles me, but whaddyagonna do.

  • TV’s Greatest Lushes

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    Because it’s Friday night, and also because what the hell: The Frisky lists TV’s top five female lushes, with examples. How Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous only managed to make #4 on this list (and combined, at that) baffles me, but whaddyagonna do.

  • A Brief Foray Into The World Of Contemporary Affairs [Drinking Games]

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    While the doyens and doyennes of this site have occasionally quite virulent opinions on the issues of the day, propriety generally forbids us from expressing same in here. It’s one of those things, like Boone’s Farm or most American light beers, that just isn’t done. But tonight, somewhere in the academic wilds of Old Mississippi,…

  • A Brief Foray Into The World Of Contemporary Affairs [Drinking Games]

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    vidiot
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    While the doyens and doyennes of this site have occasionally quite virulent opinions on the issues of the day, propriety generally forbids us from expressing same in here. It’s one of those things, like Boone’s Farm or most American light beers, that just isn’t done. But tonight, somewhere in the academic wilds of Old Mississippi,…

  • Gonna Check This One Out, And Soon

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    Botanica in Red Hook looks interesting: Botanica makes their own cacao infusion, fresh squeezes the juices behind the bar, grow their herbs on the roof, and they’ve even hit up a number of neighbors for backyard edibles — including grapes and figs that grow on Ferris Street, calendula from “Karen” (as they couldn’t remember her…

  • Cross-Promotion

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    By the by, I’ve got a review of the Empire Hotel Rooftop up on NewYorkology. (Short version for cocktailian readers: very scene-y, the cocktail I had was well-mixed, there are lot of premium brands, and the menu tilts heavily toward vodka drinks and the all-too-common abuse of the "-tini" suffix.)

  • Cross-Promotion

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    By the by, I’ve got a review of the Empire Hotel Rooftop up on NewYorkology. (Short version for cocktailian readers: very scene-y, the cocktail I had was well-mixed, there are lot of premium brands, and the menu tilts heavily toward vodka drinks and the all-too-common abuse of the "-tini" suffix.)

  • The Truth About Vermouth

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    Paul Clarke drops some serious science on the San Francisco Chronicle in an exhaustive takeout about vermouth — the history, notable brands (with tasting notes!), styles, and even recipes.  Well worth your time. Here’s a wonderful sentence:  [From] the approach taken by most American bartenders – who typically dispense vermouth with atomizers, eyedroppers or simply…

  • The Truth About Vermouth

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    vidiot
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    Paul Clarke drops some serious science on the San Francisco Chronicle in an exhaustive takeout about vermouth — the history, notable brands (with tasting notes!), styles, and even recipes.  Well worth your time. Here’s a wonderful sentence:  [From] the approach taken by most American bartenders – who typically dispense vermouth with atomizers, eyedroppers or simply…