St. Kevin's Cocktail Recipe In celebration of tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day, we've been enjoying Glenadalough Irish whiskey this week. St. Patrick is, of course, the patron saint of Ireland. The patron saint of Glendalough, though, is St. Kevin. St. Patrick's legendary nature miracle was clearing Ireland...
Craft Irish Whiskey for St. Patrick's Day We got our first taste of the Irish whiskey revival last spring at a Glendalough pop-up at Service Bar. Since then, we've grown in our appreciation for Irish whiskey as a more companionable spirit for mixing. We understand now...
Let's Not Put a Label on It Cocktail Recipe When we went to Hank's on the Hill to do our photo shoot for our article on Cook's Cook about reading a cocktail menu, it wasn't strictly necessary that the drinks taste good. They just needed to...
Where to Drink on the PCH: Pebble Beach When we spent the first week and a half of January on a driving tour of California, introducing our new child to some of our favorite people and places, our family kindly lent us one of their cars...
The Nora Highball Cocktail Recipe When we returned from the hospital on November 4th, it felt like high time for a drink. One of us had been waiting for one for 9 months, nine hot, uncomfortable, tired and tiring months. Then she had to wait another week....
The Return to Acqua al 2 One of us was raised in California; the other in Chicago. Because of this, while in most regards our tastes are quite similar, we have very different comfort foods. For the Californian, it's sushi, smoothies, and juice; for the Chicagoan,...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Ward 8 Everything we know about Boston's West End, we owe to Dennis Lehane. Apparently, in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the West End was the second stop on an immigrants' path to assimilation...
Lorenzo Americano Cocktail Recipe One of us has an Italian great-grandfather, Lorenzo. Lorenzo immigrated to the US in the era when seeming as English as possible was the preferred integration strategy; so Lawrence or Larry has been a family name ever since. We're partial to the...
WhereYou Should Be Drinking: All Purpose DC doesn't really do pizza. This was an adjustment for us. One of us was raised in Chicago, which is, of course, famous for its pizza. That same one spent a few years in New Haven, which claims to be...
Where to Drink in Detroit: Mudgie's Deli While sipping our Salt & Cedar at Detroit City Distillery, we asked Lee the bartender where else we should go in Detroit for a good drink. He told us that we should head to Mudgie's, and look for Amanda...