Punch Week: Punch's Secret Sauce This week, we're familiarizing ourselves with the cocktail's predecessor, punch. We're not talking about the jungle juice served from a trash can to a solo cup at your first college party, but a mellow blend of spirit, citrus, spice, and sugar...
Punch Week: An Introduction to Punch We've never been much for punch. The word evokes rainbow sherbet and 7-Up or, even worse, concoctions served out of plastic trash cans at college parties. If there's one thing we avoid in a drink, it's consuming it out of...
Penicillin Cocktail Recipe Every Sunday night, since the turn of the century, a group of my closest friends gathers together on Sunday nights, to grill some meat, drink some drinks, catch up with one another, and play some games. In the early days, we played board...
Cole Porter Cocktail Recipe Thumbing through our Waldorf Astoria Bar Book recently, we ran across this nice little variation on a whiskey sour. We like the bit of funk the sherry brings, and we always prefer our sours with an egg white foam; to us, the...
Where to Drink NYC Edition: Le Coucou We spent our anniversary cocktailing our way through the Big Apple, and this week we're taking you along for the highlights and tips on where to imbibe in New York City. We heard that Le Coucou has been all the rage,...
Liquor 101: Failed Experiments with Ardbeg Perpetuum As is the case with most people of my age and gender, my first step along the path to cocktails was single malt Scotch, neat. Back in those days when I was just beginning to familiarize myself with spirits,...
Where We've Been Drinking Suburban Edition: Francesca's As we mentioned Monday, we used our holiday trip home to the suburbs to do a little investigation of suburban drinking. Had the cocktail renaissance come to the suburbs? And if so, how are cocktails the same and how are they...
Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...
Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe When we were ordering our brunch drinks at Bearnaise, one drink caught our eye that we didn't end up ordering, mostly because we're on a tireless search to find the perfect Bloody Mary; so one of our drink slots is...
Bloody Mary Bar When I said yesterday that formal sessions at this food and drink conference I attended broke for happy hour, I didn't mean to give you the impression that that's when we started drinking, just that that's when we stopped listening to presentations. The drinking...
