Now that Halloween is wrapped up, it’s time to start looking down the road to Thanksgiving, the holidays and beyond. As we approach this busy and festive season, it’s a good idea to mark a few significant dates on the calendar so they don’t get lost in the shuffle, and in these parts some of… Continue Reading
Cocktail Chronicles in the News (almost, sort of)
A couple of months back, I received an e-mail with a simple, one-word subject line: “GIN!” As you can imagine, I opened it immediately. The gist of the message was that one of the local monthlies was planning an article on gin, and the editor wanted to invite me to participate in a gin-tasting panel… Continue Reading
Running a Tab
I’ve gnashed my teeth before about the escalating prices of vintage cocktail manuals on eBay and online bookstores, but even books currently in print can take a toll, in terms of both finances and time. Case in point: Ted Haigh’s modern classic, Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails. Granted, the price tag is only $15.99 (cheaper… Continue Reading
What to Drink with What You Eat
These are heady days for drinkophiles (beverage believers? libation lovers? whatever–). Today’s proverbial cups runneth over with more and better types of custom-roasted coffees, premium teas, microbrewed beers, fine wines, artisan-distilled spirits and, of course, culinary cocktails than perhaps at any other time in our history. But while there’s a growing number of books, magazines,… Continue Reading
MxMoVIII: Tahitian
It’s been a blisteringly busy few weeks. Not just the normal kind of busy, but the brain-boggling, overdrive kind of busy where you wake up thinking of all the things you need to do, then flail away at that list all day until finally giving in to exhaustion, and fall asleep while thinking of all… Continue Reading
