30 July 2008
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30 July 2008
All the booze that’s fit to print
Nice:
GREG BOEHM was galled when prices of out-of-print cocktail books skyrocketed along with the popularity of cocktails, a familiar gripe of any drink enthusiast who has been ensnared by the anachronistic charm of old bar books.
Read it all, at the NY Times.
28 July 2008
MxMo in the Crescent City
For this month’s Mixology Monday, which has a New Orleans theme, I’m going with a couple of drinks, both inspired by panels that I attended at Tales of the Cocktail.
The first drink is the Sloppy Joe’s Mojito, inspired obliquely by the To Have and Have Another panel, on the drinking life of Ernest Hemingway. Whether [...]
22 July 2008
Nicest piece of Tales swag I done swagged
Plymouth was handing these out at Thursday’s Juniperlooza session. I didn’t get one right away, but my new friend John Martin grabbed an extra and passed it along to me on Friday.
I don’t know whether to use it or just admire it!
21 July 2008
Tales of the Cocktail Webcast
Natalie Bovis-Nelsen from The Liquid Muse has a series of webcasts from this year’s Tales of the Cocktail. In installment 3, she attends the blogger party and invites each blogger to introduce himself or herself to the camera. I’m in there, too.
I have lots more to say, but since I had to dive back into [...]
17 July 2008
TotC, Day 1
Blew in to New Orleans, La., yesterday morning after a layover in Charlotte, N.C. Got my luggage and met the Airport Shuttle. The driver was delightful, full of wit and good stories about the city, pre- and post-Katrina. I was happy I was toward the end of his route so I could listen to him [...]
11 July 2008
TotC: Tentative Schedule
Next week, as I’m sure you’re aware by now, is 2008’s Tales of the Cocktail. This will be my first time attending, and I’m pretty excited about it. And also more than a little scared of it–all the pounding my head and liver will take.
Regretfully, I have to tell you that Jen will not be [...]
7 July 2008
Raspberry-Thyme Smash
I don’t talk about this here, since this ain’t the right venue for it, but my first geek love, long before I ever enjoyed bourbon or gin, is the comics. Not the stand-up sort (although I love them, too–don’t get me started on NYC’s Moonwork, or I’d-be-here-all-week-try-the-veal), but the printed type. Peanuts, Bloom County, New [...]