Ward 8 Cocktail Recipe When we did our part in the revival of the once endangered West End of Boston with a couple of rounds of drinks at Ward 8, we were tempted by, but did not order, its namesake cocktail, there being too many other...
The Bee's Knees Cocktail Recipe We once made our own limoncello. It was delicious, and not at all complicated to make. And we've never done it again. While not technically difficult, it was a lot of work, in the form of zesting many, many, many lemons....
Aviation Cocktail Recipe When we stumbled across Arsenic and Old Lace last week, we were actually researching Aviation. The two have several things in common: a name that starts with 'A'; a gin base; creme de violette; and their earliest known appearance in Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for...
Bombo Cocktail Recipe In our post on grog, we mentioned that--in contradiction to the popular imagination--grog was not a pirate drink; it was in fact the official drink of the proper navy. Pirates had their own drink, bombo. We thought, while it was only right to...
Liquor 101: What's the Ideal Dry Martini? In Philip Greene's fun and engaging To Have and Have Another, we read that Hemingway preferred his martinis at a 15 parts gin: 1 part vermouth. We have to admit that it made us curious how a 15:1 martini tasted....
The White Lady Cocktail Recipe As was the case with last week's Cuba Libre, the White Lady makes an appearance in an Ernest Hemingway story, but not a favorable one. In Islands in the Stream, our hero Hudson is about to head off to the neighborhood...
What is Grog? I can't remember exactly how it came about, but over our drinks at Waypoint--not any of which were either a punch or grog--the group of us ended up pondering what exactly grog is, and how it differs from a punch. None of us...
Hemingway Drinks: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks from...
Hemingway Drinks: Gambler's Delight We're spending this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks from Ernest Hemingway's...
Hemingway Drinks: Harry's Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe While we were doing our research for Daiquiri Week, Ernest Hemingway really caught our attention. How could he not? Legend has it that he once consumed 17 of them in a single sitting at the Floridita bar. In honor...
