If you’ve never had the chance to sidle up to the curvy swervy, beyond sexy bar at Manhattan’s Employees Only, and witness the beautiful precision and dance that occurs on the other side of that gorgeous slab of…
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December 13th: Saveur Holiday Social
CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH SAVEUR On Saturday, December 13th SAVEUR will be hosting a one-day holiday bonanza at Astor Center in New York City where the food and drink obsessed can… From 11am until 7pm there will be a…
When to Stir & When to Shake a Cocktail
I kind of hate to admit it, because I like to think of myself as a free-spirited, anything-goes type of person, but the truth is I’m a rule follower. It gratifies the Virgo in me to know that …
Here is Your Thanksgiving Cocktail: Cranberry Añejo Old Fashioned
Here it is, guys. I’ve come up with the perfect Turkey Day tipple. Old school meets new. Wood smoke and agave meets bright citrus and tart cranberries. Put everything else away for another day. This is what you’re …
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…
Food Truck Road Trip: A Cookbook, The Post Bender, and A Giveaway!
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…