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Okay, in the spirit of enlivening this blog, I’m going to post a video and ask for some commentary. I’ll start with this short, entertaining Liquor.com video showing how to make a Gimlet:

Here’s the question: can you make a Gimlet with gin, lime juice, and simple syrup, or does the drink require Rose’s lime cordial?

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2012, and Back to Life

by Michael Dietsch on January 26, 2012 · 0 comments

in Serious Eats

Time to get this blog shaking again. Quickly approaching my sixth anniversary here, and it’s time for some new material. Things have been very quiet around here, primarily because I’m a new father. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you already know this. I care for the baby during the day, and when he’s asleep or otherwise occupied, I pursue the glamorous lifestyle of the struggling writer. But he’s an infant, and they ain’t low-maintenance.

What time I do have to write is largely filled with work for Serious Eats. If you’re not following me there, please do. Recent topics have included …

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Gojee Go

by Michael Dietsch on November 17, 2011 · 3 comments

in Cocktail recipes,Gojee,Personalities,Photos

The food website Gojee launched its new Drinks site last week, featuring content from a slew of drinks bloggers. For those unfamiliar with Gojee, it offers a unique take on recipe searches. The first thing you notice when you hit the site is the large-scale photography. The site displays a slideshow of yummy looking food and beverages; the recipes are provided by individual food or drink bloggers. If the picture appeals to you, click the screen and a box pops up showing a list of the major ingredients. Click a link in the box, and you’ll be directed to a full recipe on the site of the contributing blogger. You can also search the recipes according to what you have on hand, in your pantry, fridge, or home bar.

I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute, so you’ll find several of my recipes there, along with drinks by RumDood, Cocktail Chronicles, Cocktail Buzz, and Jacob Grier, among other esteemed collaborators. For teetotalers, drinks aren’t limited to only the alcohol-bearing; Gojee Drinks also contains a number of NA recipes as well. The following images should provide the basic idea behind Gojee’s interface. We’ll start, immodestly, with one of my recipes. Then you’ll see a cocktail from 12 Bottle Bar, and a non-alcoholic limeade from Winnie Abramson.

oudeplein

[Links: Larger image on Flickr | Recipe on Gojee Drinks | Original recipe on my site]

fourthdegree

 [Links: Larger image on Flickr | Recipe on Gojee Drinks | Original recipe on 12 Bottle Bar]

 

limeade

[Links: Larger image on Flickr | Recipe on Gojee Drinks | Original recipe on Healthy Green Kitchen]

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Bar back

November 11, 2011

Preparing a Serious Eats post on Thanksgiving cocktails. Someone decided to help.

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A Note to My Unborn Son

May 30, 2011

Dear Son: One of the things you’ll learn pretty early is that Daddy likes his whiskey. (Mommy’s a fan, too, but while you’re still incubating, she’s abstaining.) One of Daddy’s favorite families of whiskey is the group of bourbons and ryes made by the Wild Turkey group (although please steer clear of the 80º, k [...]

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He Lives!

March 10, 2011

How sad. I log in to my blog’s dashboard so infrequently these days that it doesn’t even remember who I am anymore. But! That doesn’t mean nothing’s going on. Oh, there’s plenty going on. Happy Anniversary, Baby I completely missed the fact that A Dash of Bitters turned five last month. I normally spend some [...]

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Odds and Ends

December 21, 2010

No one ever seems to blog much during Christmas week, and I’m no exception. Just wanted to drop a quick post linking out to a couple of other things I’ve been working on. The biggest news is that I’m contributing to Serious Eats. I’m writing a weekly column for the next several weeks on basic [...]

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Winter 2009/2010 column is online

February 2, 2010

[Click to read onscreen. Many thanks, as always, to Chip Riegel for making the drinks look so damn good.]

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Meehan on Fallon

January 8, 2010
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