Just a quick pimpin’ here. The Gin Fizz picture I posted yesterday is the result of the arduous and laborious research forced upon me by the taskmasters at Imbibe, who wanted a paragraph about, and a recipe using, orange flower water. The pain I suffer for this site…I tell ya.

My bit appears in the Q&A [...]

photo by Jennifer Hess

I don’t know how many variants there are on the French 75, but they all seem to take a name that involves fiddling with the number: French 75, French 74, French 76, et cetera. This weekend’s drink is no exception.

I started with the beautiful bottle of St-Germain elderflower liqueur that Jen bought me on Friday. [...]

I really wanted to participate in this month’s Mixology Monday, but sometimes life just gets in the way of your plans, y’know?

We have a couple of stray cats who frequent our backyard. A few months ago, one of them done got herself knocked up. She delivered her babies at the end of April, and after [...]

photo by Jennifer Hess

As promised, Jen and I tasted a sampling of seven gins, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Parker. These were remnants of bottles bought and mostly drunk over the last several months, so there was no real logic to what gins we were sampling. In alphabetical order, we tasted

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Tonight, apparently, the Dorothy Parker Society is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Parker. Newyorkology reports there will be free gin and a reading of her works.

I’ve got a bunch of gin remnants in various bottles cluttering my liquor shelves, so this anniversary provides a great excuse for a gin tasting. But [...]