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 one, calling for two full wineglasses of spirits. By modern sizes, that would be about 10 oz, 5 times the...
Read MoreCroatia 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 honor of the famous Croatian marasca cherries, we used cherry juice as our base here. With its front end punch of tart cherries and complex layering of herbs, some people...
Read MoreCroatia 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 Croatian liquor for the ingredients and Adaptive Leadership catchphrases for the names. Today, we give you Work Avoidance. I think in...
Read MoreCroatia 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, using Croatian liquor for the ingredients and Adaptive Leadership catchphrases for the names. Today, we give you On the Balcony. On the...
Read MoreCroatia 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 liquor for the ingredients and Adaptive Leadership catchphrases for the names. Today, we give you Mirroring. As we mentioned...
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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 spending a recent evening at the Croatian Embassy with the HKS DC Alumni Council. It was our first experience on Embassy Row, and it didn’t disappoint. The embassy had all of the...
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