Month: March 2010
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Traveling in Style at the Cocktail World Cup
[This is one of many posts submitted live from the 42Below Vodka Cocktail World Cup international cocktail competition. For official event photos, go here. For my photos, go here.] On the fourth day of the Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand, we began the day in Queenstown, New Zealand and ended it in Wellington. Keeping…
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The New Sweet
The story on cocktail sweeteners I wrote for the April/May issue of Fine Cooking magazine is now online. You can read it here.
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Fine Cocktails in Fine Cooking Magazine
I have a story in the new March/April issue of Fine Cooking magazine. It's about the variety of ways to sweeten cocktails with raw sugars, maple syrup, agave, honey, etc. Pick up a copy to find a Mamie Taylor variation with evaporated organic cane sugar by Thad Vogler of Bar Agricole in San Francisco, an…
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A Trip to Guatemala for Zacapa Rum
The other week I went to Guatemala to learn about Zacapa rum at the source. It was great. The sugar cane for Zacapa is sourced from the western part of Guatemala, near the Pacific coast where it is hot and humid. Here they cleaned up the cane field for the demonstration of cutting. In reality…