Category: Seen Elsewhere
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Drinky Linky: April Showers (Not Growers) Edition
A few things that have caught my eye of late while I've been engaged in Interwebs persusal: Above: a friend is using fresh chives from her garden as Bloody Mary straws. kinda brilliant! Yes, the royal wedding is coming up. Yes, I've gotten lots of dippy awful-sounding recipes from liquor brands sent to me. No,…
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Drinky Linky: April Showers (Not Growers) Edition
A few things that have caught my eye of late while I've been engaged in Interwebs persusal: Above: a friend is using fresh chives from her garden as Bloody Mary straws. kinda brilliant! Yes, the royal wedding is coming up. Yes, I've gotten lots of dippy awful-sounding recipes from liquor brands sent to me. No,…
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Correcting The Times, or Thirty Seconds Over Google
Below is a letter I sent to the Times yesterday (with links added for annotation and clarity): Hello, In the article "Bar Crawling From Boutique to Boutique" by Michael Rovner on p. E9 of today's paper, there is the statement that "the Jack Rose [is] named after a friend of the owner, Jonas Hegewisch, and…
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Correcting The Times, or Thirty Seconds Over Google
Below is a letter I sent to the Times yesterday (with links added for annotation and clarity): Hello, In the article "Bar Crawling From Boutique to Boutique" by Michael Rovner on p. E9 of today's paper, there is the statement that "the Jack Rose [is] named after a friend of the owner, Jonas Hegewisch, and…
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Drinky Linky: Happy New Year Edition
A roundup of some interesting things that have caught my eye around the Interwebs lately: Robert Simonson covers the aged-cocktail trend in the New York Times (my encounter with Jeffrey Morgenthaler's Barrel-Aged Negroni is described here); Simonson also limns bars devoted to the punch resurgence; Speaking of punch, here's another nice review of Wondrich's latest;…
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Drinky Linky: Happy New Year Edition
A roundup of some interesting things that have caught my eye around the Interwebs lately: Robert Simonson covers the aged-cocktail trend in the New York Times (my encounter with Jeffrey Morgenthaler's Barrel-Aged Negroni is described here); Simonson also limns bars devoted to the punch resurgence; Speaking of punch, here's another nice review of Wondrich's latest;…
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Noggin’ It
You really should go over to Eatocracy and check out this post I wrote on eggnog and some variations thereof. (Included: Jeffrey Morgenthaler's eggnog recipe, my mother's favorite eggnog recipe, and my grandmother's recipe for Southern Boiled Custard. All yummy.)
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Cure For What Ails Ya. Even If It’s Sobriety
I have a slight cold. So it was the perfect excuse to write about hot toddies on CNN.com.
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Cure For What Ails Ya. Even If It’s Sobriety
I have a slight cold. So it was the perfect excuse to write about hot toddies on CNN.com.
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Drinky Linky: Bad Ideas (and Some Good Ones) Edition
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus another links roundup post so soon after the last one. But there's a lot of stuff that's worth your attention. Including some horrible ideas. We looked at this last time around in brief, chiefly the idea of spiking a Thanksgiving turkey. But, alas, along with all the cool…