Now that the weather is warming up, it’s time for a little recharge after the winter doldrums. It’s important to celebrate the little things; for us, that is those fleeting moments that I get to spend with friends. So to add to our month of celebrations, we planned a rustic Bloody Mary Brunch. I can’t think of a better way to spend a late lazy morning than with my girlfriends. Lives on-the-go can take their toll, so we all need to make space to relax.
Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock turns THIRTY. Yes. 3-0 — how old does that make you feel? Thankfully, the folks at Fraggle want you to “Dance your cares away” all year long with fun events celebrating all things Fraggle: http://fragglerock30.com/ One of the fun filled celebrations happens to be in our backyard. The Spare Room in […]
For a month in Bloom, it would be lovely to get some of those beautiful floral notes into a tasty tipple. There are many ways to get florals into your cocktails: rosewater, orange flower water, lavender, or hibiscus, but by far the easiest is with St. Germain liqueur. Without a deft hand, one too many drops of orange flower water or rosewater can quickly result in a soapy tasting drink.
Around St Patrick’s Day, it’s alway so difficult to find a green drink that doesn’t involve putting artificial food coloring into your beer and pretending that that’s perfectly normal. There are plenty of naturally occurring green things in the world, so why is this so difficult? Luck of the Irish for you, I’ve got this […]
Mixology fans, have I got a treat for you. In an old auto-body shop in the divisively self proclaimed NoHo Arts District, lives a bar helmed by Jonny Whitton (Seven Grand & Villains Tavern) and road readied by the Liquid Assests dynamic duo of Marcos Tello and Aidan Demarest. Gourmet Latin cuisine is on the menu, […]
Valentine’s Day: the celebration of overprix-fixe plates, pressure laden plans of romantic bliss, and otherwise available single ladies crying themselves to sleep over re-runs of Sex in the City. So depressing that it kinda makes you want to re-live your last awkward moment of single-hood, the one where you went stag and got drunk in […]
I have an affinity for Mulled Wine, not only because my father is a certifiable wino (in the fact that he turned my mother’s office into a walk-in wine cellar, not that he is homeless and drinks out of a brown paper bag… not that there’s anything wrong with that…), but mostly because when I was 16, I spent 2 weeks of winter with a family in Grenoble, France, along the glorious French Alps.
The act of drinking began for many of us as a means to an end: a way to escape, a little liquid courage, or a social lubricant. As we grew into our drinking habit, that fast and loose attitude of ‘any drink will do’ was replaced with ‘I will never drink Merlot’ or some other distinction that we had developed over the course of testing our palate. As with boyfriends, over time, we figured out what we liked by test driving a number that we didn’t like.
The act of drinking began for many of us as a means to an end: a way to escape, a little liquid courage, or a social lubricant. As we grew into our drinking habits, the fast and loose attitudes of ‘any drink will do’ were replaced with ‘I’m not drinking Merlot,’ or some other distinction […]
One of my favorite things about cocktails, is the the ability to drink a piece of history. With the advent of bartenders reaching for the classics and online communities like the Chanticleer Society built around finding lost and forgotten recipes from the pre-prohibition era, we are lucky as imbibers to be able to taste something that links us to our American roots.