If you look at just about any cocktail recipe book from the latter half of the 20th century, you’ll see frequent references to an ingredient called, with little explanation, “bar… [Continue Reading]
Category: Thirst Quenchers
If not for Prohibition, applejack, rather than whiskey, might be the most American of spirits. From the earliest days of colonization, the apple orchard was the source of our continent’s… [Continue Reading]
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of John Prine’s death from COVID. This week’s Sunday Special is the great singer-songwriter’s favorite cocktail, one he actually invented: the Handsome Johnny. And this… [Continue Reading]
This week’s Sunday Special comes with a mystery chaser. It arrives via Julie Bookman, an outstanding writer and actor, a valued colleague to Chef Sin and me for many years,… [Continue Reading]
I am not, and never have been, a fan of the non-tini. You know what I mean. Those drinks, usually fruity or sweet or both, that include “Martini” or “-tini”… [Continue Reading]
I set out to find a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail for this week’s Sunday Special with exactly three goals in mind: No Irish whiskey. No Guinness. No green food coloring. No… [Continue Reading]
This ought to be an unusually brief edition of the Sunday Specials series. This week’s cocktail is the Negroni, and not only is it considered a classic; it’s also one… [Continue Reading]
There once was a berry named Marion Beloved by a certain librarian. When her berries fell in With some vodka and gin She quit and became a cocktailian. If you’re… [Continue Reading]
The Martini has been my favorite cocktail for decades. So it’s a little weird that until now I’d never tasted, much less made, the Martini’s close relative: the Martinez. Or… [Continue Reading]
Alistair Cooke, the great British journalist who spent most of his career trying to explain the United States to his befuddled compatriots back home, never quite managed to develop an… [Continue Reading]