Dushan Zaric, and owner of New York's Employees Only and Macao Trading Co., gave a talk at Tales of the Cocktail Vancouver about spirits that were made for mixing in cocktails. Zaric compared bartending to being a musician, using spirits as instruments and doing a ‘repetitive creative practice’ while making... Read more →
Hello from Vancouver! I'm up here for the two-day Tales of the Cocktail festival. In one of the tasting rooms yesterday, Eddie Russell, Associate Distiller and son of Master Distiller Jimmy Russel, was on hand to pass out samples and information. In Canada and in some parts of the US... Read more →
In last week's FineCooking.com post, I put up a recipe from Daniel Boulud Cocktails & Amuse Bouches. The book is actually a set of two small books, cocktails for Him & Her. The Mayfair Sour is a nice drink from the book. Soft and gentle. This photo is not from... Read more →
The latest music video from Madonna "Give Me All Your Luvin'" includes some product placement luvin' for Smirnoff vodka. It's far enough in the background that it's not entirely clear what the brand is, unless of course one is already familiar with these things. The full video is below. Smirnoff... Read more →
About twice each week, I'm asked by people visiting San Francisco which bars to hit while they're here. From now on I have an easy answer: Those are all in my app module for iPhones, now available on iTunes. The app is called Know What. It's basically a framework with... Read more →
Joel Baker, formerly a bar manager at Bourbon & Branch and Burritt Room, will be taking over the bar program at Tres Tequila Lounge & Mexican Kitchen in San Francisco, the bar/restaurant formerly known as Tres Agaves. Image stolen from Tres website Most of the plans are still a bit... Read more →
One difficulty with the Igloo Cooler method of making clear ice is that you get a great big block of ice at the end and have to cut it up into usable cubes yourself. I developed an ice cube tray using plastic boxes that gets the ice into long rectangles,... Read more →
ZU vodka, known in the rest of the world as Zubrowka, is starting to appear in more serious drinks than just mixed with the usual apple juice. Oddly enough, in each of these better drinks in which I've seen ZU used, it has been used in concert with Cocchi Americano.... Read more →