Drinky Linky: Friday Evening Edition

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I don't usually do two links-roundup posts in a row, but I've seen so many interesting links that I just gotta share 'em with you:

Nooooo! LeNell is leaving New York. (But I cannot wait to try out her B&B(&B) in Baja);
Dale DeGroff's five commandments for bartenders;
the Top 10 NYC summer cocktails;
What you get when you stare at Old (Mr.) Overholt, and taste three different ages…
…and what it's like to taste really Old Overholt;
What Tiare learned at Tales of the Cocktail;
Playboy's "Imbiber" visits Tales;
Camper rates the Tales swag…
…and drops knowledge about the buck, a drink style made with ginger beer and citrus;
The World's Biggest Bar Crawl, a cocktailian's bucket list;
Forgotten Bookmarks finds a brochure asking "Who Was Betsy Flanagan?" in a copy of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Prairie." I just wanna know what the Roosevelt served as their Betsy Flanagan Cocktail;
The LA Times limns the City of Angels' nascent cocktailian scene;
(also via Chuck) Sazerac cookies!
a lovely article in the Weekly Standard about the cocktail renaissance;
a video on the making of a gin Gimlet à la Raymond Chandler;
And, Dave Arnold gives us the science of shaking (Part 1, Part 2.)

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