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....
Ward 8 Cocktail Recipe When we did our part in the revival of the once endangered West End of Boston with a couple of rounds of drinks at Ward 8, we were tempted by, but did not order, its namesake cocktail, there being too many other...
Where to Drink in Athens: Clumsies A friend of a friend gave us a handful of suggestions of good cocktail places in Athens. As we did a bit of research into them, we were intrigued to see that one of them described itself as an all-day...
Hemingway Drinks: Harry's Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe While we were doing our research for Daiquiri Week, Ernest Hemingway really caught our attention. How could he not? Legend has it that he once consumed 17 of them in a single sitting at the Floridita bar. In honor...
Royal Clover Club Cocktail Recipe In our search for a good recipe to feature Glendalough's new Wild Botanical Gin, we ran across this one. It's not a subtle enough drink to allow a fine gin to distinguish itself; so we went with the more gin-centric, delicately...
Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe Mary Pickford was a big deal. This huge silent film star was one of the first movie stars to get billing in a movie; before her, most actors were anonymous. In a time when the studios usually had actors at their mercy,...
Tiki Week: The Legend of Don the Beachcomber We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
Tiki Week: Not All Rum is the Same We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping to...
Daisy Week: Fancy Gin Daisy Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming...
Lyon Overproof White Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their overproof silver, and then mix it...