A few weeks ago, I received a review bottle of a product that’s been reintroduced to the American market (albeit in a reformulated recipe)–Canton Ginger Liqueur. I love ginger in all sorts of forms: I love the slices you get to clear your palate between bites of sushi; I love ginger beers and ales; and [...]

My overtime period has ended at the day job, so expect regular posting to return.

I’m blasting back in this week with two product reviews–one is of a liqueur and the other of a fairly new book. I don’t receive review offers often, and I don’t accept everything I am offered, so it’s fair to say [...]

So, yeah, the overtime is still kicking my ass. I leave home at 8, I get home 12 hours later, and I don’t feel like much other than the classics–aviation, martini, old fashioned, Manhattan, etc. Not much creativity these days. I do have a pretty bottle of Canton ginger liqueur that I’m playing with (more [...]

A couple of months ago, the marketing team for 360 Vodka offered me a sample bottle for review. And although I took them up on the offer, I’m only now finding the time to write anything up. (I can’t tell you how happy I’ll be to put this overtime period behind me, but I still [...]

…I’ve been invited to contribute pieces to How to Do Things, and my first article went live today. I’ve been working on it for a month, alas, and it shows how busy I’ve been that such a relatively simple piece should take a month.

Anyway, my first piece is about buying bar tools. I think next [...]

For last weekend’s blow-out, I mixed up a loose variation of Padma Lakshmi’s Sweet Lime-Ginger Rum Punch. I know you want to mock me for this, but let me remind you that Padma is hot. See? Hot.

I started the day before the party by taking a couple of plastic containers and filling them with a [...]