Smirk all you like, ye denizens of New York, San Francisco, London, and all the other cities rich with bars serving nothing but well-crafted cocktails — but how often do you wind up with a bartender on the front page of one of your city’s daily newspapers? Seattle can be a sleepy place at times,… Continue Reading
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Table Matters
There are so many new food and drink sites coming online that it’s hard to keep up — while my online reading is mostly oriented toward spirits and cocktail-related blogs and sites (those, and news feeds to satisfy my political junkie side), the world of cocktail blogs has erupted so much over the past year… Continue Reading
MxMo XXXII: Guilty Pleasures
I’m prone to exaggeration from time to time, but I say with all seriousness that the results of this round of Mixology Monday — hosted by Stevi at Two at the Most, with the theme Guilty Pleasures — may truly frighten me. But not for the uppity reasons you might expect from a card-carrying cocktail… Continue Reading
The next Mixology Monday: October 13
We’re up to round 32 for Mixology Monday, which takes place this coming Monday, October 13. Hosting this round is Stevi at Two at the Most, and Stevi has chosen Guilty Pleasures as her theme. In her words: October’s Mixology Monday will be a tribute to our guilty pleasures. Write about that one cocktail that,… Continue Reading
Keeping it Fresh
Malt Advocate publisher & editor John Hansell has an interesting post up today at What Does John Know, regarding the storage of whisk(e)y. To wit: how do you keep your opened bottles at their best? This is a question that’s increasingly starting to bother me. Several years ago, when I first started assembling the contents… Continue Reading
