12 Drinks of Christmas: Mid-Winter Margarita For the seventh drink of Christmas, my true served to me … a Mid-Winter Margarita, shaken in a Mason Shaker. We know that the old Mason jar has become aggressively hipster recently (even The Atlantic, of all places, is talking about ‘the hipster vessel of choice.’ Of course, the article is thoughtful as always). Count us with the hipsters on this one. We got a cocktail...
Read MoreClassics Week: The Daiquiri As we’ve mentioned, rum is not our strong suit. What’s become of the daiquiri might go a long way toward explaining our prejudice against rum. When we think of the daiquiri, we think of artificial flavors and artificial colors, basically frozen Kool-Aid with a splash of rum thrown in. As we’ve come to learn, this is entirely unfair to the daiquiri. Ernest Hemingway wasn’t drinking...
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Drink(s) of the Week: The Last Word(s) We’ve mentioned the concept of variation on a theme as one solid way of creating a cocktail. Cocktails are very seldom created from a blank slate; instead you start with a known quantity, and tweak until you find something new and great. Our Drink of the Week illustrates this idea in a couple of delicious ways. First, while I have no way of proving it, the basic pattern for our drink, The...
Read MoreMy mother. She is my hero for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which is times that she is the one to tell us about a new cocktail recipe or lounge. I feel simultaneously grateful (tips are helpful) and further convinced that my mom is a thousand times cooler than I’ll ever be. During a vacay to Hawaii (also, how can that be my life?) she discovered a new mai tai that quickly gained both her and my dad’s approval....
Read MoreThe weekend is here! Has this week felt long to anyone else? Ours has been full, but of entirely good things So who’s to complain (except our distant friend, Sleep)? The Pope. The subsequent one time only Federal Pope Holiday as half the city had to ‘work from home’ given the number of road closures. Friends in town. A newly engaged sister. See all good things. One of the highlights, and some news that we’re...
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