Food and beverages play an important part in our love lives. Enjoy a sampling of Valentine images around food and drink, vintage and current. We even link to a few recipes.
Category Archives: Drink: Recipes
BITTER WAS NEVER NOT THE NEW BLACK
The Old World never stopped liking bitterness. I don’t know if it stems from having so many wars fought on their soil, or simply being exposed to it through permeable borders and colonialism. Americans appreciation of bitterness is limited at best. The United States is only reinforcing this flavor isolationism. I propose a tasty rebellion: drink bitter, don’t just be bitter.
The Thistlestop is both a pun and a marriage of the U.S. (rye) and Italy (Cynar) with citrus officiating. It is dry, bitter, and yet inspires a desire for another sip. It is also easy to make, and the artichoke derived Cynar is a great guest to have at your home bar.
Let’s make a Thistlestop:
Stookey’s Club Moderne
by Julie Lindow
Join me in raising a toast to Stookey’s Club Moderne, a delightful 1930s art deco-style cocktail bar that opened in January 2015, by a dynamic trio of owners – husband and wife Tim Stookey and Leslie Cole Stookey and Leslie’s cousin Aaron Cole. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: MAMMA MIA and the Te-A – Please, No More
Mamma Mia.
Haters be hating.
I hope there isn’t a statute of limitations on movie critique.
I hope that there isn’t a special place in hell for those who lambast an entire cast filled with revered actors.
I hope I never need to make a Long Island Iced Tea again.
I hope no one ever orders a Long Island Iced Tea again.
I hope.
Down the Hatch: Clara Bow
by Vince Keenan
What’s in a name? When it comes to cocktails, sometimes not enough. Continue reading
Shaken & Stirred: A Drink With David Cronenberg in the Lion’s Den
Director David Cronenberg and actor Peter Weller pose with a mugwump. Naked Lunch, 1991
by Michael Cecconi
How many drops make an ocean?
How many pixels until the picture becomes clear?
How many licks to the middle of a Tootsie Roll Pop? Continue reading
