by Brian | Sep 30, 2015 | Recipes
What was your first “surprise” food? If you are like me, it was a Hostess cupcake: chocolate frosting with a vanilla swirl on top over chocolate cake with that gooey white filling. I admit that after the first 100 or so, I stopped being surprised but I was...
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 | Sep 28, 2015 | Recipes
When you say the word “ketchup” you are repeated two syllables that are thousands of years old. The syllables have not changed but the “thing” sure has. The original ketchup was a fermented fish sauce made in Southern China. It’s a long...
by Brian | Sep 27, 2015 | Recipes
Here is a weekend treat distinguished by two things: a baking technique that may be quite new to you and a cake with intensified richness from lots of butter, sugar, and sour cream. Not to mention those blueberries. The technique matter here is that the blueberries...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
For twenty-five years Dave Broom has been writing about whiskey and other matters of alcohol. His last book was Whiskey: The Manual, manifestly THE tour book to the grandeur of whiskey. Now, on October 6th, actually, we’ll be able to read his latest work, Gin:...
