The Christmas List: Local Liquor As we write this post, people are wrestling one another in WalMart for the last item in stock of an unbelievable deal on the new XBox. That can only mean one thing: Christmas shopping season has officially begun. In light of...
The Christmas List: Beaker Style Mixing Glass As we write this post, people are wrestling one another in WalMart for the last item in stock of an unbelievable deal on the new XBox. That can only mean one thing: Christmas shopping season has begun. In light...
Thanksgiving Made Easy: The Leftover Day Cocktail Recipe This week's posts have been for those of us who perhaps bit off a little bit more than we can chew, had a dish or two more than the oven can really handle, and of course had an emergency...
Thanksgiving Made Easy: The Hip Flask Cocktail Recipe This week, we've been featuring super easy recipes for slightly harried Thanksgiving dinner hosts. Today we shift the focus to guests. Your friend's family have graciously invited you to join them for Thanksgiving dinner. It's very kind of them...
Thanksgiving Made Easy: The Pecan Pie Cocktail Recipe Welcome to Thanksgiving Week. If you're like Martha Stewart and have Thanksgiving firmly in hand, and are looking for a sophisticated cocktail for the appetizer hour to really put the meal over the top, the rest of this...
Thanksgiving Made Easy: The Secret Ingredient Cocktail Recipe Welcome to Thanksgiving Week. If you're like Martha Stewart and have Thanksgiving firmly in hand, and are looking for a sophisticated cocktail for the appetizer hour to really put the meal over the top, the rest of this...
The Ocean Spray Cocktail Recipe Welcome to Thanksgiving Week. If you're like Martha Stewart and have the meal and all the other Thanksgiving logistics firmly in hand, have an impeccable table setting planned, and are looking for a sophisticated cocktail for the appetizer hour to really...
Throwing your Drink I wrote at the beginning of the week that I was back in Boston a couple of weekends ago and--though my latest obsession in the Boston cocktail scene is Baldwin & Sons Trading Company--I made it a point to return to an old standard, Drink in...
DC's Ivy City Distillery Crawl Based on its name alone, we expected Ivy City to be filled with Georgian mansions with old, leafy gardens or maybe to be a big, lush park. Imagine our surprise on our first visit there when we found trailing barbed wire...
Rock Creek Rye One of our biggest delights upon moving to DC was to discover the exciting, new movement of local distillers here. Local distilling was quite the American tradition, before Prohibition. There were 4000 distillers in the US at the dawn of Prohibition; post-Prohibition, only...