Negroni Week: The Contessa Cocktail Recipe It's Negroni Week! All around the world, 5000 bars and restaurants are serving up their favorite version or variant of this beloved classic cocktail, and giving the profits to charity. We're joining in the fun, by posting our own Negroni...
Negroni Week! We were recently remarking on the proliferation of new 'holidays.' Things seem to be getting a little crazy. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Sibling Day until my sister, who's more up on these things than I, posted a...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: Jump for Joy We first encountered this drink at Puritan & Co, a short walk across the train tracks from our beloved Union Square neighborhood in Somerville. I think we only ended up going to Puritan & Co once before moving, but...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: the Greyhound Rescue Highball Week may have ended on Friday, but our enthusiasm for tall, ice-filled glasses hasn't. Maybe something that we should have mentioned during highball week is that, in case you want to try to design your own highball, the...
Highball Week: Negroni Swizzle Cocktail Recipe We're suckers for a Negroni. We, as we've mentioned, love the way that it's finely balanced proportions invite experimentation; but we also love it in its original form, with bitter Campari and sweet and sour vermouth playing off of one...
Cocktail A La Louisiane Inspired by some research for a New Orleans themed party that never happened, we're spending the week celebrating New Orleans' long and illustrious relationship with the cocktail. Previously, we've covered the Ramos Gin Fizz and two of our own New Orleans inspired...
Fortified Wine Week: Vermouth This week, we're giving fortified wines some attention. They're part wine, part brandy, essential to cocktails, and each delicious in their own unique way. We started by talking about fortified wines generally, and then gave each of sherry and port their day in...
The Blue Jeans Ball + Your Easter Cocktail Every year, the Capital Area Food Bank throws a tasting gala called The Blue Jeans Ball to raise money to 'take hunger off the map.' This year, Union Kitchen hosted a pre-ball cocktail hour and asked us to...
Drink of the Week: The Jackson The second author being welcomed at the PEN/Faulkner cocktail reception was Mitchell S. Jackson, author of The Residue Years, a novel that shows a much different side of Portland, Oregon, from Portlandia. Being a critically acclaimed new author, he, like Jamison--it...
Drink of the Week: The Jamison For the PEN/Faulkner event we mentioned yesterday, along with a drink in honor of Faulkner himself we designed one for each of the two featured authors. Today's drink is named after Leslie Jamison. Neither of us has read any of Jamison's work, though a...
