St. John Frizell has a story in Edible Manhattan about bartender mentoring, and the passing of knowledge from Dale DeGroff to Audrey Saunders to Jim Meehan to his staff. Go read it. I wrote a long post about how San Francisco is more of a collaborative environment than a mentoring... Read more →
Steve Olson is a consultant and spokesperson for the Wines from Spain, a group of Spanish wine producers. We met at B44 on Belden Lane for a Spanish lunch and big sherry tasting with 14 really fine examples. Sherry is a particularly difficult wine to understand, for reasons explained below.... Read more →
Read this interview with me on GinTime.com. I met the fabulous Geraldine Coates while in London last month and she asked to interview me. Sure, I'm easy. Read more →
The Craft of the Cocktail by Dale DeGroff is one of my go-to books for drink recipes. Come to think of it, for actual drinks I'm going to make around the house, it's probably the first place I look. Now he's released a second book, called The Essential Cocktail: The... Read more →
When you need an expert to rate your science-fiction themed cocktails, you call up writer/bartender St. John Frizell... and Miss Saturn, who rates drinks in numbers of hula hoops. Check out this fun video taken at the theme restaurant/bar Mars 2112. If it doesn't start playing automatically, click on the... Read more →
Check out this big charity auction from Woodbridge Wines. There are bunch of food things to bid on, but some good booze ones too. You can make Tony Abou-Ganim come to your party and serve drinks! Also Waterford decanter and wine glasses. A bag of Wine Spectator swag. And right... Read more →
Of all the competitions between all the spirits brands, there is no more heated battle than the one for dominance of the cachaca market. Cachaca, Brazilian rum made from sugar cane (instead of molasses) is the ingredient in the Caipirinha, the drink many people are banking on to become the... Read more →
Hey Look! It's my first story for Epicurious.com! Wahoo! The Top Five Absinthe Cocktails Now that absinthe is legal in America, what are you going to do with it? I share some information about absinthe and suggest the five best cocktails in which to use it. Read more →