The Spirit World

Hopefully this notice is better late than never!
If the idea of sampling beer from 58 New York breweries and food from Pride of New York purveyors appeals to you then you’d best get yourself down to South Street Seaport’s Pier 16 & 17 by 5:00 tonight!
Organizers expect New York Brewfest to […]

With the coming of the fall weather our thoughts turn to those things that remind us of the season. Apples play a big role in these thoughts. For this weekend’s Happy Hour at Home we are going all apples!
We’ll start with our cocktail for the weekend - an Apple Manhattan. […]

When visiting Hawaii common items to bring back for friends and family are boxes of macadamia nuts. Covered in chocolate, salted and roasted, mixed into toffee or in any of the other creative ways they are used macadamias speak of the islands.
According to the California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG), however, it wasn’t always so. […]

Each month I pick a beer style and try to focus on drinking examples of that style throughout the month. This gives some structure to my beer drinking choices and also helps me taste a wide variety of interpretations of any given style. In addition to drinking the style of the month, I […]

By now you’ve no doubt come to realize that I’m a little fond of drinks that use some of the commonly found, but lesser known ingredients. In many cases, these are ingredients which were once extremely popular, but have sort of fallen by the wayside in favor of some new trendy (and heavily marketed) product […]

Boka Kitchen + Bar has been open about 2 months now. It sits adjacent to the lobby of the new Hotel 1000 in downtown Seattle. A friend and I decided to check it out a couple nights ago and we were mostly very pleased with what we found!
The interior space is very, […]

Oh my. I think I have a new favorite cocktail. A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto the 22 Doors’ Pear Nectar Martini and the idea of it’s sweet, thick flavor keeps creeping into my head. Luscious is about the best word I can think of to describe it’s flavor… it’s almost like drinking a […]