Month: January 2013

  • Cocktails in the Champagne Style

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    For CLASS Magazine/DiffordsGuide.com, I interviewed Jeff Josenhans of San Diego's US Grant Hotel. He's been quietly doing pretty cool stuff over there. He implemented one of the first cocktail herb gardens, has barrel aged cocktails that he is able to sell commercially, and now features the "Cocktails Sur Lie" program.  Cocktail ingredients (minus the base…

  • The Wide World of the Ward Eight

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    In my latest column for FineCooking.com, I talk about how the Ward Eight cocktail is everywhere these days.  You know how you learn the definition of a word and then suddenly you keep hearing that word everywhere? Over the past month it has been that way with me and the Ward Eight cocktail.  I had…

  • A Sampling of Sugars from Asia

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    Last year at Tales of the Cocktail I gave a talk along, with David Cid of Bacardi, about sugar, syrups, and rum. A detailed write-up of that talk is on the blog Commercial Free Cocktail. As part of that talk, I passed around a ton of samples of sugars to taste. Most of these sugars…

  • 2012: My Year in Boozy Travel

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    I decided to add up all the trips I took in 2012 and compare it to last year's travel, and it appears this year I was a total slacker.  I took a mere 17 trips this year (22 last year), and flew only 90,000 miles in the air, compared with 150,000 last year. I visited…