Drink of the Week: The Jackson The second author being welcomed at the PEN/Faulkner cocktail reception was Mitchell S. Jackson, author of The Residue Years, a novel that shows a much different side of Portland, Oregon, from Portlandia. Being a critically acclaimed new author, he, like Jamison--it...
Drink of the Week: The Jamison For the PEN/Faulkner event we mentioned yesterday, along with a drink in honor of Faulkner himself we designed one for each of the two featured authors. Today's drink is named after Leslie Jamison. Neither of us has read any of Jamison's work, though a...
Drink of the Week: The Faulkner We mentioned yesterday that searching for recipe inspiration had led us in the direction of Professor Jerry Thomas' Mississippi Punch. Today's drink, the Faulkner, is where we went with it. The occasion for the Faulkner was a cocktail reception being held...
Drink of the Week: Mississippi Punch Searching for some inspiration for a recipe we were designing recently sent us way back, to 'Professor' Jerry Thomas and the cocktail guide he wrote in the mid-19th century. The Mississippi Punch grabbed our attention. 'Punch' is right; this recipe certainly packs...
Croatia Week: 2343 Mojo (Mocktail) We think it's important to put some effort into the drinks we serve our guests who are abstaining from alcohol. They might not be quite as complex as a cocktail, but we want our mocktails to get as close as possible. In...
Croatia Week: Work Avoidance We recently tended bar for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government alumni event held at the Croatian embassy. It was sort of a reunion of participants in Ronald Heifetz's crazily popular class on Adaptive Leadership. We designed custom cocktails for the event, using...
Croatia Week: On the Balcony We recently tended bar for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government alumni event held at the Croatian embassy. It was sort of a reunion of participants in Ronald Heifetz's crazily popular class on Adaptive Leadership. We designed custom cocktails for the event,...
Croatia Week: Mirroring We recently tended bar for a Harvard Kennedy School of Government alumni event held at the Croatian embassy. It was sort of a reunion of participants in Ronald Heifetz's crazily popular class on Adaptive Leadership. We designed custom cocktails for the event, using Croatian...
Croatia Week: Party at the Embassy After Drink Local, Drink DC week, we thought it would be nice to get out of the house and do a little traveling. So, we'll be spending this week in Croatia. Why Croatia, you ask? Well, we had the honor of...
Drink Local Drink DC: Harold Black 'Have you been to the speakeasy on 7th?' our neighbors asked. 'There's a speakeasy on 7th?' was our reply. We'd actually read a brief mention of said speakeasy, Harold Black, in the Washingtonian's Capitol Hill neighborhood guide when we first moved in....