The Spirit World

My first full day in Baltimore was beautiful. The sky was clear; the sun was warm. It was an ideal day to grab a seat outside of a pub and have a few relaxing pints. That’s exactly what I did. Across the street from the Baltimore Convention Center downtown in a […]

The Moscow Mule is probably the first vodka cocktail invented in America.
While vodka had been imported into the US in small quantities since the turn of the century, it never really caught on as anything but a crude spirit. Immediately following prohibition, the first vodka distillery was established in America by Rudolph Kunnett, who had […]

I entertain quite often and one thing I try to do - both to give my guests a way to be part of the party and as a way to take a bit of the load off me - is set up the beverages in a way that makes it easy for everyone to handle […]

I purchased this little book not only for the cocktail recipes but also because it’s a travel guide of sorts. It’s the Food & Wine Cocktails 2005. The 2006 version is also available for pre-order now.
At first glance it may look like many other mixology books with chapters dedicated to the […]