Jack o’ Diamonds, Jack o’ Diamonds, I know you of old You have robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold It’s a-whiskey, you villain, you’ve a been my downfall You’ve kicked me, you’ve cuffed me, But I love you for all.

And it’s a whiskey, rye whiskey Rye whiskey, I cry If I don’t get rye whiskey Well I think I will [...]

Kevin at TasteTV.com writes to tell me of Karen Foley’s interview on the TasteTV site. (Thanks, Kevin!) Karen talks about the ideas behind Imbibe magazine. The interview appears to be a couple of months old because they talk only about the first two issues, but it’s worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.

Unless your [...]

I can’t reproduce the image without paying a damn expensive license fee, but Cartoonbank has a fun little mixology-related cartoon that was recently in the New Yorker. It’s worth a click. Thanks to Emdashes for the link.

(I know, I know–from a computer-nerd standpoint, I could easily reproduce it, but I don’t want lawyers after me. [...]

The theme of October’s Mixology Monday is exotic drinks, a category of beverages in which I am quite the raw novice. Exotic beverages always seem to require a lot of equally exotic ingredients that I don’t normally keep on hand: passion fruit, orgeat, rums older than Dakota Fanning–you get the idea.

This class of drinks intimidates [...]

I’ve missed posting in the last couple of Mixology Mondays, mostly owing to my own incompetance, but I do want to take the time to announce the following two MxMo’s.

October 16 brings MxMo 8, on the theme of exotic drinks. Meeta’s hosting it, over at What’s For Lunch, Honey. Break out your tiki mugs, deck [...]