Down the Hatch: The Brooklyn and the Liberal
by Vince Keenan Last month’s column spotlighted the ingenuity of contemporary bartenders in crafting cocktails that honor The Brooklyn, despite lacking a single ingredient, the magical elixir Amer Picon.
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Down the Hatch: The Red Hook, the Greenpoint, and the Bensonhurst
by Vince Keenan It’s one of the great ironies of the classic cocktail renaissance that the drink best showcasing the movement’s ingenuity does so because it frequently can’t be made.
Down the Hatch: The Stork Club and the Brown Derby
by Vince Keenan The current cocktail renaissance comes garnished with nostalgia, a longing for the bygone era when drinks were poured as part of an evening out in sophisticated nightclubs. No amount of speakeasy trappings and period bartender facial hair can recapture the glamour of yesteryear’s storied watering holes. The next best thing is to […]
Down the Hatch: The United Artists Cocktails
by Vince Keenan The 1919 founding of United Artists was greeted with disdain. “So the lunatics have taken charge of the asylum,” Metro Pictures president Richard Rowland remarked when a quartet of Hollywood luminaries went into business for themselves. But UA’s long, storied run—“from Way Down East to Raging Bull ,” in the words of […]
“Five Came Back,” A Book Review
by Vince Keenan Five is a charmed number for Mark Harris. In 2008’s Pictures at a Revolution, he charted New Hollywood’s tectonic shifts by profiling the quintet of films nominated for Best Picture of 1967, from the nouvelle vague-influenced Bonnie & Clyde to the studio bloat of Doctor Dolittle . He deploys a similar conceit in […]
Down the Hatch: The Meyer Lemon Whiskey Sour
Vince Keenan is the author of the best-selling Kindle book Down the Hatch: One Man’s One Year Odyssey Through Classic Cocktail Recipes and Lore. This post marks his inaugural column on cocktails for EatDrinkFilms, “Down the Hatch.”
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