by Brian | Feb 26, 2020 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary
It is the warmest January in 141 years. I’m not running around in shorts, yet, but I do look longingly in my snowshoes handing in the basement. It’s not that there hasn’t been enough snow to use them. There hasn’t been snow, period. I pass my time now getting ready...
by Brian | Feb 19, 2020 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
In the lovely new Tex-Mex cookbook Ama, you will find exciting recipes for food and for beverages. That picture shows hibiscus syrup made with dried hibiscus flowers. What to do with that syrup? Smell it for one thing. Smell it. Then, add it to club soda. Or...
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 | Nov 15, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
It’s party season and you may have some beverage responsibilities coming up so. Or, like me, you may be playing the role of bartender for a group. Suzi’s cooking school, Cooking by the Book, has a group of 30 next week who want a mix of classic and...
by Brian | Nov 5, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Really Simple
With each night, we check the thermometer. When will it finally freeze upstate? Cause on that night our mint patch will be history. The same for all our herbs. We have five or six months of freshness and then it’s a long winter. We can get...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Sometimes you can make a cocktail that is quite, quite complex in flavor. Like my Clementine and Basil Bash. It’s a riff on a drink called the Come on In from Prosecco Made Me Do It by Amy Zavatto. I reviewed Amy’s lovely book last week. Amy’s drink features a...
