I occasionally like a great cocktail. Most often, I prepare a cosmopolitan having mastered the recipe to the point I can prepare it at home, while camping, and disguised as ‘cranberry juice’ to complement take out pizza from Abbot’s for Friday nights at the beach. Limes are key and the ratios are easy enough-just double up on that vodka. [more]
Three ways to turn me off a cocktail include looking like fruit juice, tasting very bitter and filled with Campari. To its credit, the negroni overcomes my petty obstacles and delivers one of the … [more]
I’ve been to New Orleans twice in my life, both of those during the brutally humid month of July. The first visit, back when I was 15, was to a Southern Baptist Convention and left me with … [more]
Pointing out that tiki-type drinks have the potential to be more dangerous than other kinds of drinks doesn’t really add anything new to the world’s collective knowledge, but I … [more]
Another gem from the Amis book “On Drink,” this one takes its name from the title of his tale of an undeservedly fortunate university lecturer. As in all of Amis’ recipes, he … [more]
This is a variation on any number of lemon and ginger beer-based summer drinks, but it’s become my absolute favorite warm-weather cocktail. For this I blame my friend David. He first made it … [more]
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