I disagree with T.S. Eliot. April is not the cruelest month. February takes the cake. Just as you round the corner of January, plowing through bone-chilling days and post-holiday bills, you’re smacked in the face with another full month of winter. Some lucky few slip away ... [Read More] [Leave a comment]
Classic Champagne Cocktail Recipe
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And when guests give you non-vintage Champagne, you make Classic Champagne Cocktails. Let’s face it, 2009 was a lemon of a year for many of us. What better way to boot out the bad old annus—and toast in the new—than with this ... [Read More] [Leave a comment]
Gringa Mexican Hot Chocolate Recipe
Festive occasions call for festive drinks. And when the event is a late-Fall tailgate picnic, at least one of those drinks should be hot. Recently, at the year’s Big Game tailgate, we served Gringa Mexican Hot Chocolate to friends and family. The bracing blend—a not-too-sweet ... [Read More] [1 Comment. Please leave another.]
Summer Fruit Sangria Recipe
As a teenager reading Hemingway, I remember being dumbfounded by the quantity of wine and hard booze his characters drank. How in el diablo could these men—and refined women—down 3 cocktails before lunch, 5 or 6 bottles of rioja with the repast—and still manage to walk, talk and ... [Read More] [Leave a comment]
Copywriters’ Kitchen Cocktail Hour: Cucumber Strawberry Pimm’s Cup No. 1 Cocktail
In Europe, you’ll still find hundreds of locally made digestifs and aperitifs. These aromatic elixirs combine fruits, roots, barks and bitter herbs with alcohol—usually fortified wines. The salutary drinks are meant to stimulate appetite for the meal to come and help one ... [Read More] [Leave a comment]
