11 Mar Sweet & Steamy Memphis Wedding Cocktail Bar
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26 Jan The Nora Highball Cocktail Recipe
The Nora Highball Cocktail Recipe When we returned from the hospital on November 4th, it felt like high time for a drink. One of us had been waiting for one for 9 months, nine hot, uncomfortable, tired and tiring months. Then she had to wait another week....
16 Nov The Bee’s Knees Cocktail Recipe
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....
25 Oct WhereYou Should Be Drinking: All Purpose + Primavera Cocktail Recipe
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WhereYou Should Be Drinking: All Purpose DC doesn't really do pizza. This was an adjustment for us. One of us was raised in Chicago, which is, of course, famous for its pizza. That same one spent a few years in New Haven, which claims to be...
24 Oct Aviation Cocktail Recipe
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...
18 Oct Arsenic & Old Lace Cocktail Recipe
Arsenic & Old Lace Cocktail Recipe We stumbled across this recipe while we were doing some research on another one. It caught our attention and held it--fitting considering its original name is Attention. We'd never heard of it before, but it's actually a pretty old drink, though...
12 Oct Where to Drink in Detroit: Mudgie’s + Worse for Wear Cocktail Recipe
Where to Drink in Detroit: Mudgie's Deli While sipping our Salt & Cedar at Detroit City Distillery, we asked Lee the bartender where else we should go in Detroit for a good drink. He told us that we should head to Mudgie's, and look for Amanda...
04 Oct Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe
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Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe As you'll know if you read our post 'What's the Ideal Dry Martini?', learning of Hemingway's preference for a 15 gin: 1 vermouth proportion sent us into some research on martini recipes over time. We, of course, found that gin to...
27 Sep Where to Drink in Athens: The Gin Joint + the Doctored Gin & Tonic Cocktail Recipe
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Where to Drink in Athens: The Gin Joint We arrived in Athens with only the barest of plans in place: we knew we wanted to visit the Acropolis; we had a place to stay: and we had a restaurant recommendation and a handful of cocktail bar...
26 Sep Where to Drink in Naxos Town: Like Home Bar + Pink and Blue Cocktail Recipe
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Where to Drink in Naxos Town: Like Home Bar On our recent trip to the island of Naxos, we spent most of our time on the beach, there being so many beautiful ones to choose from. We designated one of our days, though, village and town...