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A positive spin on the neutral spirit

by Chef Zuz on February 10, 2023 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

The worst mistake I’ve ever made as an amateur bartender (so far, anyway) was refusing to make a Vodka Martini for my friend Tracy. Actually, it wasn’t so much a… [Continue Reading]

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Don’t mess around with mezcal

by Chef Zuz on May 27, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

The trendiest spirit of the past decade is mezcal. And like Instant Pots and puppies, the liquor became even more popular during the pandemic. Once a hard-to-find niche item often… [Continue Reading]

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Here come the suds

by Chef Zuz on April 28, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

I was, for far too many years, an insufferable beer snob. I know: Beer is not typically associated with elitist tastes and nose-wrinkling attitudes. At least, it wasn’t until the… [Continue Reading]

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Perfect Hasselback potatoes—using chopsticks

by Chef Zuz on April 18, 2022 in Tips for the Culinarily Impaired

Chef Sin was making Hasselback potatoes using a technique I’d never seen before. I grabbed my phone and started shooting. It’s Cuisine Stupide’s first instructional video.  

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Hack the classics

by Chef Zuz on April 15, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

Over the course of more than two decades as a writer, editor, and columnist for local newspapers, I came to conclude that our readers mostly fell into two broad camps:… [Continue Reading]

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Easy does it in the Big Easy

by Chef Zuz on March 19, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

With little argument, New York can probably lay claim to inventing more popular modern cocktails than any other city in the Western Hemisphere, with Paris and London perhaps not far… [Continue Reading]

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Liqueurs, the DIY way

by Chef Zuz on March 12, 2022March 12, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

The oldest item in our liquor cabinet isn’t a vintage cognac or an antique whiskey. It’s a bottle of blueberry schnapps, about to enter its fourth decade of gathering dust…. [Continue Reading]

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Lost in the noble experiment

by Chef Zuz on February 19, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

Of all the negative consequences of the misguided exercise called Prohibition—organized crime, government corruption, economic decline, and an actual increase in deaths due to alcoholism and tainted moonshine—one downside is still… [Continue Reading]

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Wanted: Great cocktail, mint condition

by Chef Zuz on February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

The worst thing that ever happened to mint was toothpaste. It’s just sad. This superb herb, one equally serviceable in culinary applications both sweet and savory, is instead most closely… [Continue Reading]

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Smoke ’em if ya drink ’em

by Chef Zuz on January 28, 2022 in Sunday Specials Cocktails, Thirst Quenchers

Somehow I missed the great smoked-cocktail trend. It seems to have peaked around 2019, just prior to the pandemic, but also before it could make much of an appearance in… [Continue Reading]

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