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 all it’s loving, dynamic-filled glory. Families are like that, right? So good and so complicated all at once. It’s only...
Read Morephoto 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 what to have for supper. And those that don’t.” I don’t know if it’s a nature or nurture thing, but I (and most of my family) fall into the...
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Fall Five: Spiced Rum Old Fashioned Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Pumpkin Pie Shooters We start day two of our five-day celebration of fall with a book recommendation. Perhaps our favorite cocktail recipe book this year has been Eric Prum and Josh Williams’ Shake. It’s organized by time of the year; so at the change of every season, we’ve...
Read Morewhether you feel like a sinner, a saint, or both, this is the drink for you Before the Pope was in town and made everyone some combination of inspired, weepy, and sentimental, Nadia Bolz-Weber was in town on a tour for her new book, Accidental Saints. Now, Nadia is not the Pope, but she had an effect on me like the Pope did on most. Nadia is a Lutheran minister. She is also a former alcoholic and Wiccan, is covered in tattoos, and her...
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