In my latest post over at FineCooking.com, I review and share a recipe from the new book Edible Cocktails by my pal Natalie Bovis, aka The Liquid Muse. The new book Edible Cocktails by Natalie Bovis (known in the cocktail blog world as The Liquid Muse) is a recipe book... Read more →
Can I get you a drink? I am guest bartending at Jardiniere in San Francisco on Wednesday May 23 from 6-8 PM. I'll be making the Golden Gate 75 cocktail, a drink I created to celebrate the bridge's birthday. I wrote about that and shared the recipe here. All the... Read more →
Demi Monde, a new bar project in New York's Financial District from Dave Kaplan and Alex Day, has opened. Eater has some great pictures of the inside. I see: lots of fizz, lots of brandy, and other French ingredients. Between this, the New York oufit of the Experimental Cocktail Club... Read more →
In last week's FineCooking.com post, I put up a recipe from the new book Beer Cocktails, by Howard & Ashley Stelzer. As I said in the post I really like the book and the recipes are very original. "The drinks are divided into recipe categories by beer type: lagers, Belgian/trappist... Read more →
In the June/July issue of Fine Cooking magazine I have a story about sangria. We kind of rewrote it a bunch of times and now it's mostly a list of tips on how to make a good sangria, but here is the intro. Traditional sangria is delicious, but it can... Read more →
It turns out that Wayne Curtis has a lot of connections in the iceberg business. Wayne and I are co-leading a talk about Exotic Ice at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic on Monday, May 14th and we thought it would be cool to get some iceberg ice for it. Because the... Read more →
The new bar Midnight Cowboy has opened on the sight of Midnight Cowboy Oriental Modeling, basically a brothel, in Austin. The bar opened at the end of February. Below is the menu and below that, a press release about the bar. I see: Celery Julep! Josh Harris' Del Rio! Vinegar!... Read more →
I found the cocktail for last week's FineCooking.com column from the blog of Dylan Regan, who is riding a motorcycle across the country on his way to the Manhattan Cocktail Classic. The cocktail is from Bryan Dayton of Oak at Fourteenth in Boulder, CO. It contains Hendrick's gin, Pimm's, lemon... Read more →