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 MoreGuest Post: Botanical cocktails w. Wild Roots Apothecary We mentioned last week that we have a couple of local colleagues who’ve vastly improved our mocktails, by creating non-alcoholic products that contribute a depth and complexity we usually rely on liqueurs to bring. While we’ve found them essential for our mocktails, these products also make quite a nice addition to cocktails. In fact, our favorite tonic creation at...
Read MoreCocktail/Mocktail Hour with the Kennedy School Alumni Council There are so many Harvard Kennedy School graduates kicking around in DC that it seems like most any cocktail party could claim ‘alumni gathering’ status. The Harvard Kennedy School DC Alumni Council takes it to a new level by intentionally thinking through interesting places and thought-provoking, timely topics to bring Kennedy School alumni together. They...
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...
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12 Drinks of Christmas: The Pinkston For the third drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … the Pinkston. It’s our third of 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. The Pinkston is our very slight variation on an old, but little known and-to our minds inexplicably-much disdained classic, the Pink Lady. While it would be perfectly enjoyable anytime, we...
Read MoreDrink of the Week: Bushwick Spice Trade The weather has still been delightfully mild. We were still grilling dinner last week, and I sat outside for lunch two days. I hear it may even be warmer again by the time you’re reading this. And yet, seeing as we’re planning out our Thanksgiving meal as we work on this post, it’s hard to keep resisting the fact that winter is now around the corner. As has been our custom, we...
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