Monthly Archives: January 2010
Hearts and Cocktails for Haiti
Bar Celona, a relatively new tapas and cocktail bar Williamsburg, is hosting Hearts and Cocktails for Haiti this Sunday from 6-10 pm. For $40, you’ll enjoy 4 hours of an open bar featuring rum punch, beer, cocktails and wine served … Continue reading
Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand was a silent film released in 1922, starring Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee and Nita Naldi. The hero is a matador and there’s a love triangle. Olé! It was based on the 1909 Spanish novel Sangre y arena … Continue reading
Filed under Cocktails
Pouring tableside
Over the summer I wrote a short piece about how a restaurant can show it cares about wine. I didn’t include pouring wines by the glass tableside on my list, but I should have. The Detroit Free Press ran a great article … Continue reading
Filed under Noteworthy articles, Wine
Pinot blanc, Trapp style
A few weeks ago I went cross-country skiing in Vermont at a place called the Trapp Family Lodge. The Trapp family is the inspiration behind the classic musical and movie “The Sound of Music”. We were attempting to sing this … Continue reading
Prior to the horseless carriage
Today I present another oldie-but-goodie from Ted Haigh’s book. Though it’s called the Ford Cockail, it’s been around since 1895. It may have been named after Malcom Webster Ford, a famed athlete who in 1885 and 1886 was the winner at … Continue reading
About.com announces whiskies of the year
Lance Mayhew, contributing spirits writer to About.com put out a piece this week on the top whiskies made in the United States. I particularly like his choices for best rye and best corn whiskey. Check it out here.
Filed under Spirits
Go Big Red
The Statler Hotel at Cornell is going to support Finger Lakes Distilling and someone on their team recently inquired about a “Big Red Martini” featuring Vinter’s Wildberry vodka. I began brainstorming “red” items: muddled berries (out of season), cranberry juice (boring), … Continue reading
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How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew shoe hit wall drunk awesome
This time I can’t take credit for the title of the post. I found it on YouTube and why mess with perfection?
Want one of these?
I created this blog because I took a class we offer at FCI called Food Blogging with Steven Shaw. I was skeptical at first. I’m not on Facebook and I don’t tweet, and lord knows there were plenty of people who had already beaten me … Continue reading
