Cocktailians

Category: Seen Elsewhere

  • Now Here’s A Civilized Approach To Self-Discipline

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    This method, from Academic Productivity, and used here to drive a rolling writing deadline, could (and, oh yes, should) be adapted to any pursuit that one finds less than palatable: What I call the Martini Method is named after an anecdote I once read about the novelist Anthony Burgess (of Clockwork Orange fame). Burgess was…

  • You Crazy, Bearded Civil War General!

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    As threatened earlier, cocktail guru/historian/writer David Wondrich showed up on Conan Friday night. And because this is the twenty-first freakin’ century and we live in a digital age and all that, the segment’s already been uploaded to YouTube: UPDATE:   ….and. no it’s not.  It’s been pulled.  (When will NBC learn that this hurts no one? …

  • You Crazy, Bearded Civil War General!

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    vidiot
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    As threatened earlier, cocktail guru/historian/writer David Wondrich showed up on Conan Friday night. And because this is the twenty-first freakin’ century and we live in a digital age and all that, the segment’s already been uploaded to YouTube: UPDATE:   ….and. no it’s not.  It’s been pulled.  (When will NBC learn that this hurts no one? …

  • Long-Dead, Yet Still Bringing Pleasure

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    Trader Tiki offers an invaluable roundup of some old cocktail books that have passed into the public domain.  With links to full-text PDF versions, even.  What a great resource to peruse. Not-so-incidentally, one of those books is the grandaddy of them all:  Jerry Thomas‘ 1862 magnum opus How To Mix Drinks: Or,The Bon-Vivant’s Companion, the…

  • Long-Dead, Yet Still Bringing Pleasure

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    vidiot
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    Trader Tiki offers an invaluable roundup of some old cocktail books that have passed into the public domain.  With links to full-text PDF versions, even.  What a great resource to peruse. Not-so-incidentally, one of those books is the grandaddy of them all:  Jerry Thomas‘ 1862 magnum opus How To Mix Drinks: Or,The Bon-Vivant’s Companion, the…

  • Corpse Reviver Coverage

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    Over at Oh Gosh!, Jay Hepburn explores the various Corpse Revivers.  This is fun to see, as the Corpse Reviver No. 2 is my very favorite cocktail, dating back to the first time I tasted one a couple years ago at the Pegu Club.  An excerpt from what I wrote at the time: The best…

  • Off the Presses

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    I’ve been trawling through the various cocktail websites, looking for interesting ones to add to the blogroll, and just ran across Robert Simonson’s Off the Presses.  A few of his posts really resonated with me, so here’s some linky goodness for your Tuesday morning perusal: What Cocktailians Like.  Guilty as charged on most of ’em. …

  • Off the Presses

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    I’ve been trawling through the various cocktail websites, looking for interesting ones to add to the blogroll, and just ran across Robert Simonson’s Off the Presses.  A few of his posts really resonated with me, so here’s some linky goodness for your Tuesday morning perusal: What Cocktailians Like.  Guilty as charged on most of ’em. …

  • Champagne Celebration

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    To go with the New Year theme, here’s a marvelous disquisition on Champagne and Champagne cocktails from New Orleans magazine Where Y’At (via Chuck at the Gumbo Pages): How does one confidently improve real Champagne? One presumes, I suppose. There are a few dresses Champagne can slip into that show off her best features. The…

  • Champagne Celebration

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    To go with the New Year theme, here’s a marvelous disquisition on Champagne and Champagne cocktails from New Orleans magazine Where Y’At (via Chuck at the Gumbo Pages): How does one confidently improve real Champagne? One presumes, I suppose. There are a few dresses Champagne can slip into that show off her best features. The…