Croatia 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 MoreElection Mocktail: The On Lime Voter During graduate school, one of Steph’s projects was a study on making the voting process more efficient and modern. What if voting didn’t involve long, slow lines and great, big voter registration rolls and arcane, hard to read ballots? In a whirl of optimism, naivete, and forward-looking, she went into the project asking, ‘If texts and online voting work for American Idol, why...
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...
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(M)ocktail of the Week: The Amy D. Cocktails-those with alcohol- are really our thing. However, we’ve learned over time that applying even a skosh of the skills we’ve learned to create one mixed drink without alcohol, is a surefire way to win over…everyone. It might be shocking to know that you don’t have to drink in order to be our friend. We have a number of friends who are excelling at...
Read MoreTemperatures have hovered in the upper 80s this past week in DC. And my friends in Boston did a beach day on Saturday. And let’s not get started about the year-round summer weather my family in So Cal experiences [though I did hear to everyone’s surprise that it rained for 2 whole days, straight(!) in July]. Septummer is clearly a real thing; don’t tell me it’s not. And in case you thought yesterday, September...
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