by Brian | Feb 27, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I’ve just reviewed the lovely book Field Guide to Bitters and Amari devoted to all those ingredients and liqueurs we love. Love with mystery. I can tell you when I had my first Mai Tai. And how it I made it. The year was 1967. I was starting graduate school. I...
by Brian | Feb 25, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Mark Bitterman is the nation’s leading flavor expert. His store, The Meadow, in Portland and New York City was among the first to feature salts and then chocolates. And now bitters and amari. By the hundreds. Once upon a time, if you wanted to buy “bitters”...
by Brian | Sep 29, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Pegu is the name of a river in Burma. When Burma was Burma, not Myanmar, and the British reigned as dominant colonists, they drank what else? Gin. They had a gentlemen’s club, the Pegu Club, just outside Rangoon with a lively, creative bar. You can imagine it:...
by Brian | Aug 13, 2013 | Cookbook Review
Bitters, by Brad Thomas Parsons, is a gem of a book, a heavyweight gem. You know bitters: that little bottle of something that sometimes get dashed into your beverage? Oh, yes, a dash is much more than a drop, by the way. Three, four, even five drops. But what are...
