Monthly Archives: October 2010
Cocktail Culture for Everyone
I’m no Julia Child. Really! After all, her genre was cuisine whereas mine is cocktails. But her ability to demystify the intricacies of sophisticated French cookery for the mainstream hash slinger is something I truly admire. How many of us … Read More »
So Just Who Was Tom Collins?
The simple answer: he never existed. The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874 had nineteenth-century jokesters telling friends that “Tom Collins” had been talking about them. When the friends denied knowing anyone of that name, the wiseguys would make up … Read More »
Teapots, Crackpots and Cocktails
There’s a move afoot in some of the more swell establishments in Britain and places like The World Bar in Australia and New Zealand. It’s “Teapot Cocktails”, which simply means that beverages are being mixed in and served from teapots, … Read More »
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