by Brian | Jan 24, 2020 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Mixology, Recipes
Heresy. I committed heresy. And it was just fine. Suzi and I took a walk last Sunday from Tribeca to Hudson Yards, a sprawling complex of high rise apartments and businesses on the west side of Manhattan. There’s a restaurant complex there that includes a tapas bar. A...
by Brian | May 14, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I just posted a happy review of Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails. And this is the first cocktail there that caught my eye. How can you pass on a Zombie? Yes, I do watch the Walking Dead on TV [although I have 35 episodes recorded but not yet watched]. I think I’m going...
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 | Jan 27, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
A man has cravings. What can I say? And sometimes they are irrational. A few days ago it was barely 20° outside but I wanted a pina colada. We were walking down the ethnic food aisle of the supermarket and there was the blue can of Coco Lopez. My hand darted out. “Put...
by Brian | Jan 11, 2019 | Cocktails, Dedicated Drinker's Diary
Last year I reviewed the Cocktail Cookbook by Oskar Kinberg, a brilliant book of cocktail sophistication. Oskar says this one beverage is his favorite in the entire book: a marriage of rum, milk, sugar, banana and, yes, a fig leaf. That fig leave provides a...