The Spirit World

I’m not sure that “First Look” is the right category for this post - I mean Trader Vic’s has been around since the 50s and in their heyday you could find one in nearly every major city in the US, it seemed. And, before they began slipping from favor, I had visited several of […]

We had a little delay in yesterday’s travel plans - low clouds in the city by the bay kept us in travel mode quite a lot longer than expected which resulted in a whole series of delays in our day. So our Happy Hour at Home post didn’t quite make it up yesterday and […]

I imagine there is a place in these United States where it is warm in May and it is not raining like the end of the world. I imagine a place where the sun shines bright and warm breezes dance through the trees instead of the dense fog and drilling drizzle that has hovered […]

I grow several varieties of herbs at my house and years ago I picked up a little 2″ pot of Sweet Woodruff - also known as hay plant, kiss-me-quick, mugwet, rockweed, sweet grass, or Waldmeister (“Master of the Forest”), among other names. I loved the delicate little white flowers and the small light green […]

This isn’t the article I wanted to write. I wanted to be able to tell you about all the different beers I tasted. I wanted to write about what Garrett Oliver and Phil Markowski said. I wanted to tell you that I saw the Beer Goddess. Instead all I have to […]

This week (May 15-21) is American Craft Beer Week. I plan on celebrating this occasion by participating in the Great American Beer Tour. The skinny is that tour participants can win prizes by visiting brewpubs and breweries. Each participant downloads and prints out a beer passport (pdf). You then take the […]

I distinctly remember the first time I had Campari.
This was before I had gotten into cocktails, and I was flying business class to Europe. I was perusing the list of available liquor, and as is usually my inclination I was feeling adventuresome and wanted to order something I had never tried before. “Campari” stood out […]

Although I like my gadgets probably more than most people, I have been in the same camp with Robert in that I’ve never really felt a need to have an official “barspoon“. Generally, anything I have on hand at the time has sufficed, be it a teaspoon or soupspoon and often I use a […]

Last May, Oprah’s magazine, O, celebrated it’s 5th anniversary. In the July 2005 issue the published the cocktail that was created for their celebration.
This cocktail would serve a variety of needs but with it’s light pink color, it would be especially fitting for a Mother’s Day Brunch.
O Fizz
Makes 4 cocktails

3 […]

Stirrings.com is devoted to mixers, rimmers, bitters, simple syrup and other bar ingredients. I notice they have created their own line of premium cocktail sodas, which sound interesting and are supposed to be available this month. The line includes club soda, ginger ale and tonic water. Here’s the site’s description for the […]