Hip Sips
by Brian on February 13th, 2009 in Cookbook Reviews, Recipes No Comments
It is very tempting to call something the “best.” The word is surely overused, perhaps because we are in constant search for that elusive best person, best bite or best sip. This cocktail book is the best.
Publishers try to catch your eye with a great cover and a clever title. They hope those two things will entice you to grab, and then buy. I was in the Tribeca Barnes and Noble in their food section when, right at shoulder level, I saw Hip Sips with its pretty font and the angled picture of a martini with a balanced evergreen twig on the top.
I know about evergreens. I grew up in Portland, Oregon where in the 50’s and 60’s you could walk down Broadway and see lots of people dressed like lumberjacks. That’s because they were lumberjacks. The city was raw. I went to college there, too, and had lots of fellow students from the big cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. They loved to remind me about how unsophisticated Portland was. I took it to heart because it was my home town. And because it was kinda true.
Still I vowed passive revenge. My college was tough with over half the starting students never making it through the first two years. I graduated, got an advanced degree, moved to New York, got a Tribeca loft, and now regularly visit my Whole Foods and Barnes and Noble down the street. Still, now I pick up food reviews and constantly read about this wonderfully sophisticated nerve center for the best in food and drink: Portland. Clearly, in some prior reincarnation I must have been …
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