Where We've Been Drinking: Iron Gate We went to Iron Gate before. It was a 70 degree November day, and we ate lunch on the outdoor patio with Wigle Whiskey; it was as delightful as you imagine a warm fall day on a delightful patio sipping...
This New Year's Eve: DIY Martini Bar Our love of the martini The martini became the drink of choice for sophisticated cocktail consumers pre-prohibition, and it's never lost its place at the top of the cocktail pecking order. There is nothing classier than a martini; it oozes self-confidence, and...
Open Kitchen Tasting Every once in a while Union Kitchen, the food business incubator of which we're members, throws open the doors and invites grocery buyers, restaurateurs, and the general public to come in and see what's been cooking. Two weeks ahead of time, it sounded like...
Merry Christmas Family Cocktail Today, we wish you a very Merry Christmas; or, if you're not one to celebrate Christmas, we wish you a happy December 25th. We're grateful for you tuning in for some liquor basics, cocktail recipes, and reviews. We're spending Christmas with family, in...
For Santa Like all of you, there's one thing at the top of our minds today: what sort of refreshments do we leave out for Santa? The good, old guy has a lot of work to do tonight, and we feel it's our duty to leave...
photo cred: esquire Cocktails While You Fly In one of my favorite food memoirs the author quotes another beloved food hero of mine, Lynn Rossetto Kasper from the Splendid Table, who says there are two types of people in the world, "people who wake up thinking about...
12 Drinks of Christmas: The Christmas Martini It's the 12th drink of Christmas! And for the twelfth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...
12 Drinks of Christmas: Aztec Eggnog For the eleventh drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...
12 Drinks of Christmas: Spiced Winter Red Sangria For the tenth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me ...
12 Drinks of Christmas: Spicy Lady For the 9th drink of Christmas my true love served to me ...