I have a big folder of tasty-looking cocktail recipes that maybe I'll get around to trying sometime. Luckily my blog at FineCooking.com gives me an excuse to try a few of them. For a recent post, I picked a recipe sent by Akvinta vodka and gave it a whirl, as... Read more →
Remember the airline drink menu page? Probably not, because I keep forgetting to update it. Except that I just did, and now I added Delta and KLM's drink menus to the page. KLM carries Bols Genever and Delta carries Wild Turkey American Honey. Finally drinks on planes are getting more... Read more →
I may still be figuring out the best techniques to use to dehydrate Campari and other liqueurs, but I have enough successful powder around now to start using. My first drink was the Campari & Soda, using dehydrated Campari powder. It should be essentially non-alcoholic as the alcohol burns off... Read more →
When I was last in France I had a chance to pop into the Camus Cognac visitors' center. I was familiar with the brand, having met brand owner Cyril Camus last year in San Francisco, and curious to try some of the non-US bottlings on-site. And now I have news... Read more →
A few weeks ago I wrote about mizuwari, the whisky highball ritual sometimes performed in Japan. One thing I didn't emphasize was that most of the time these highballs are usually made with blended whisky, not single-malts. Now another company has announced the release of blended whisky made for the... Read more →
In the process of making powdered liqueurs for future use, I've been trying to figure out the best method to get liquids into solids. I'll be comparing the microwave to the oven to the food dehydrator, using Campari as my first liqueur in all of them. In today's post we'll... Read more →
Boy is this ever a topic I'd rather avoid! However there is no denying the historic link between sugarcane production. We were tracing the spread of sugarcane and the sugar industry from the Old World to the new. But slave labor used to harvest and process sugarcane began long before... Read more →
When we last left off looking at sugarcane's spread from India/Indonesia to the rest of the world, the sugar industry had shifted from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic islands of Spain and Portugal, including Madeira and the Canary islands. During this time, the powers in Europe were developing a taste... Read more →