I've been hearing a lot about Vandaag lately, a Northern European restaurant in New York with an emphasis on Denmark and Holland. The cocktail menu looks interesting with lots of genever and aquavit cocktails so I thought I'd post it here. GENEVER COCKTAILS 13 VANDAAG GIN COCKTAIL BOLS GENEVER, GOLDEN... Read more →
In my latest post on the Fine Cooking website, I inflict upon the world the Pinky Nutscadero, a cocktail made with Castries peanut rum cream, Beefeater gin, and Peychaud's bitters. It's sort of wrong, and also delicious. Read more →
The fun with ice continues! In ongoing experiments freezing things in ice, I decided to try freezing food coloring in the middle of an ice cube. Then when the ice melts, the coloring will release and change the drink. Click on the link below to see how I did it... Read more →
This blog post is a continuation of this experiment. In this experiment, I wanted to test out another way to insulate an ice cube tray to make clear ice. Inspired by a comment from another blog entry by a reader named Gael, I decided to try salt water as an... Read more →
With the new formula of Galliano and a renewed interest in the fern bar, the Harvey Wallbanger is about due for a comeback. In my latest post for Fine Cooking, I investigate the cocktail. Have a look, and remember that comments make me happy and keep me employed. Read more →
In a set of experiments, I showed that you can make clear ice by controling the direction of freezing. The container I've been using for this is an Igloo cooler. When using it, the ice freezes from the top-down and all the cloudiness in the ice forms at the bottom... Read more →
You know how you read a historic cocktail book like Wondrich's Imbibe and Jared and Anistatia's Spirituous Journey and you wish you could see the source material they used to write it? History of Pisco in San Francisco: A Scrapbook of First Hand Accounts is basically that. Historian and pisco... Read more →
My latest post on FineCooking.com is up. It's typical of my thought process: I was going to write about my time in Germany and ended up talking about a German bartender who wrote an American cocktail book in which the Aviation cocktail was first mentioned and later forgotten. Read it... Read more →