I met the folks behind the incredibly popular blog, Behind the Food Carts last May at Saveur Magazine’s Best Food Blog Awards in Las Vegas. Kim Pham, Philip Shen and Terri Phillips are incredibly talented, as you can see…
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This Saturday, In Brooklyn, The Foxes Den!
Whether you are like me and have barely given holiday shopping a passing THOUGHT, or if you are some crazy person and did it all in one fell swoop on Black Friday or Cyber Monday or some other made up…
El Presidente #4
In some circles, the El Presidente is otherwise known as a Cuban Martini. It’s also one of those cocktails with slippery origins; in my Difford’s Encyclopedia of Cocktails, this is the fourth of four known El Presidente recipes…
The Tuxedo Martini
Ceci n’est pas une Cosmopolitan. Girly-looking, manly-named! Here we have a Tuxedo Martini. It is of a piece with the Stork Club, a cocktail I blogged a few weeks back, in that both were christened after the…
The Applejack Saze-wack
Some people discover pencillin. Others spill battery acid and then somehow, suddenly, they’ve invented the phone. Me? I improvise Sazeracs with applejack brandy. While riffling through my ever-beloved Difford’s Encyclopedia of Cocktails recently, I was stopped dead…
The Sidecar
H.L. Mencken called the martini the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet, but I think the Sidecar goes one better: It’s as engrossing and enrapturing as the Great American novel. Cue the Jay-Z soundtrack bandwagon…
Red Wine and Coke (aka Kalimotxo, Cocavino)
The first time I ever drank alcohol (Mom, stop reading now) was at a party at Jeff Dakin’s house. I was 16, I think, and there was Budweiser in cans. As I couldn’t stand the taste of the champagne…
Harriet’s Highball
Me: Hey, J. and M. [our favorite married-couple-with-new-baby-in-Montreal friends] invited us over on Mother’s Day afternoon for cocktails. J.’s mother and grandmother are in town. J. says her mother and I…
The Sweet Martini
By the creamy, swirly look of it (as seen in pic above) + by the name of it => This cocktail must contain ice cream or at least cream-cream, no? No. (If I’ve now gotten it in your…
The Super JC
First and, I guess, foremost: When I say “JC,” I’m talking ’bout Jersey City, not Jesus Christ. Although now that I mention it, perhaps this post’s/cocktail’s name will SEO some hyperChristians my way…
The Summertime Smash
The following post is sponsored by Frangelico. Cocktail name, development, recipe and photography are completely my own. Check out Frangelico online and follow them on Facebook for more exciting recipes. Is it summer finally? Are we there yet, Mother Nature…
Apple Cider Margarita
Happy Friday everyone! We’ve made it, another week in the books. This week in our home our oldest completed his last day of his Freshmen year of High School. We officially have a Sophomore! WAIT………..what?? I just can’t believe …
Patriotic Celebration
Happy Tuesday! It’s softball Tuesday for me, which I am excited about. Tonight we are playing a really good team filled with fun players. It will be a good time. My second oldest is on a field trip right now …