As a reward for helping out my dear friend Sarah with her new dance website she bestowed upon me this rare and ancient bartender’s guide written back in 1934. Though many of the recipes are impossible to recreate due to the now defunct ingredients they call for, there are a few simple gems which I [...]
Posted by: Will on November 5th, 2007 © Filed under: Cocktails & Spirits | 3 Comments »
I have a beautiful, unexpected day off today, and am spending it in the kitchen, drying, preserving, mixing dough, thinking. Invariably it happens – someone close or far, a friend, a relative, a colleague, visits this blog and asks the same question. Why make bitters, or butter, or vermouth, or ketchup from scratch? Usually, the [...]
Posted by: Rose on September 13th, 2007 © Filed under: Food for Thought, Preserves | 2 Comments »
Several months ago I had to drop off some equipment at a colleague’s house not far from where I live in Long Beach. It was late in the afternoon when I arrived, and after transferring the goods into my co-worker’s truck, he and his wife invited me to join them on their poolside patio for [...]
Posted by: Will on September 6th, 2007 © Filed under: Cocktails & Spirits | 7 Comments »
A few years ago, when I first started ordering rye whiskeys, the bartender would, as often as not, pull out a dusty bottle of Old Overholt. More often than not, he or she would bear a quizzical and concerned look as if to say “do you know what you’re asking for?” Rye was seen as [...]
Posted by: Will on July 5th, 2007 © Filed under: Cocktails & Spirits | No Comments »
