What’s pig, but a foodie-blog emotion?

I know, this ain’t a cooking blog, but one thing I do want to discuss here is using spirits in cooking. I’m just a novice here, but it should be fun to discuss what works well for us and what fails miserably.

One night last week, my lovely wife brought home [...]

Stimulate your palate with some fun apéritifs, courtesy of the fourth Mixology Monday (hosted this go-around by Jimmy Patrick of jimmy’s cocktail hour).

Jen and I wanted to try something a little different this time. Since we so often get apéritifs along with appetizers when we’re out a good restaurant, we talked about doing some food [...]

The NYTimes did a piece this week on a new marketing campaign, a collaboration between Svedka and Nerve.com, in which the two companies have commissioned short works in which writers imagine life in the year 2033.

I’ll be in my early 60s then, and I know that by 2033, I’ll be retired to a private island [...]

Jen just noticed the following ice-cream flavors on the website for il laboratorio del gelato:

aromatic bitters orange bitters peach bitters

Wow, those sound great. I doubt il laboratorio has them always available, but I swear on the graves of Bruce Wayne’s parents, I’ll not rest until those killers are safely imprisoned in my belly.

Via Uncrate, check out this little number: the Margaritaville Frozen Concoction Maker. Who’s up for a “concoction”?

Tonight, I came home with a liter of 100-proof Stoli and a dozen lemons. With our big cocktail party behind us (more on that to come), my next project is homemade limoncello, using the instructions at eGullet. So you can understand how delighted I was to open the latest issue of Imbibe, which landed in [...]

In “Drink to your health with pomegranates,” the Chronicle’s Leah Greenstein discusses the nutritional benefits of pomegranates and their growing inclusion behind the bar in fancier drinkeries. Many of the cocktails described therein sound good, but this one–oh man:

At Santi in Geyserville, the Regina Viola, or Purple Queen, illustrates the pomegranate’s flexibility. Though essentially [...]

I’m a little ashamed of this. The Libationgoddess’s original calls for homemade ginger beer, but I looked around the kitchen one hot weekend afternoon, wanting something cooling and refreshing that we could drink in the backyard.

I thought, “I have mint, I have limes, I have Reed’s (bottled) ginger beer, and I have gin. What the [...]

photo by Jennifer Hess