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 Croatian liquor for the ingredients and Adaptive Leadership catchphrases for the names. Today, we give you Work Avoidance. I think in...
Read MoreSpirits Week: Introduction and Vodka Last week, we gave a brief overview of the three big categories of liquors, their distinctives, and the part they each play in cocktails. Over the course of this week, we’ll be going into more detail on one of those three categories: the base spirits. These are the highly alcoholic, basic building blocks of the liquor world. Spirits Week will be of most interest to those of you who like...
Read MoreDrink of the Week: Not Your Red Roses It’s bitters week. First, Embitterment taught us all about what makes bitters special. Then, to prove the point, we got this little beauty in a goodie package from our friends at Wigle. As soon as we tasted it, we knew we had the featured ingredient in our Valentine’s Day drink. It’s like a bouquet of flowers for your mouth. We’re not saying that it should completely...
Read MoreWhat We’ve Been Drinking: Drops of Jupiter Over the years we’ve developed some cocktail crushes, all the tweeny feelings of smittenness both for certain cocktails and for their makers. Our latest crush started when we noticed that so many of our social media friends were all posting and talking about this clever company. Hey, no, we like them more! Tea crafted for cocktails? Yes please. I mean, really, we wouldn’t...
Read MoreGirlfriend Drink: Your Monday Night Bookclub Bookclubs are fabulous in their own right; they involve friends and dinner and thought-provoking conversation; all ingredients for an evening well-spent. And while endless Cougar-Town-sized glasses of red wine are often the drink-image associated with such gatherings, for our last bookclub I wanted to spruce things up. And, when we’re hosting we always feel like we must live up to our...
Read MorePitcher Drink: the Negroni Spagliato We mentioned on New Year’s Eve that substituting sparkling wine for the spirit immediately transforms a cocktail into an excellent brunch drink, and turns declamations of, ‘Oh, that’s way too strong for me,’ into exclamations of delight. We’ve also mentioned before how pleased we were to run across the Negroni Spagliato, a prosecco-based version of the classic. It...
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