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The featured book:
Available On:
WHAT to DRINK with WHAT you EAT
by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
Finally, a definative work that examines the culinary role that liquids can, and should, play. |
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Adventures in Cocktails
Announcing:
The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess |
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Cocktail History and the Champagne Cocktail | Episode 2:
Stocking your bar and the Last Word |
As many of you know, I recently teamed up with the Small Screen Network to create a series of on-line video broadcasts in which I will cover various aspects of cocktails and mixology. This series has been going fantastically, with over 20 episodes already posted. In addition to the two initial episodes linked to above, you'll also find episodes on:
Bar Tools,
A Cocktailian library,
The Bloody Mary,
Bitters, and the Manhattan,
The Opera Cocktail,
The Jasmine Cocktail,
Molecular Mixology with Jamie Boudreau,
The Japanese Cocktail,
Interview with Sean Harrison,
The Sidecar Cocktail
...and many more.
Please visit Small Screen Network to see the complete list, as well as sign up for updates on new episodes.
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Cuisine beyond the kitchen
With the featured book this time focusing on liquid cuisine, I felt it was appropriate to share with you my thoughts on how the cocktail should be viewed within the restaurant.
In Cocktails: The Liquid Cuisine I provide some of my own basic principles that illustrate why I feel the cocktail is a long-overlooked component in most restaurants culinary landscape.
Intentional Cocktails
There isn't any reason why mixologists shouldn't specifically create a drink to accompany a specific dish. Which is why I created the Stargazer as part of a dinner program in New Orleans.
Recent Additions
Cocktails:
Canton,
Caprice,
Champagne Antoine,
Cloister,
Deshler,
Lucien Gaudin,
Nightwatch,
Stargazer,
Stork Club,
Strega Daiquiri,
Tyrol,
Voyager,
Bars:
Ok, call me lazy, but I haven't produced any new bar reviews since my last update. But I did update my general bar lists for both Seattle, WA (USA) and New York, NY (USA).
Web Sites:
The Bitter Truth,
Fee Brothers,
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At Your Service
I'd like to try to make sure that this site is as useful as possible to your quest in understanding quality cocktails. Toward that end, I am incorporating various capabilities and services into this site as appears useful and appropriate to my users. Here are some of the ways that you can get more use out of my site:
Mobile DrinkBoy
I've published all of the cocktail recipes that I list on my site as an AvantGo Channel. This allows you to download these recipes to many different types of mobile devices and always have them with you.
Mailing List
As you may have noticed, I don't update my site on any sort of a regular basis. Many of my users have asked me to let them know when I post new articles so that they can check them out. For a while, I used ListBot to send out mailing to all of my faithfull readers, but recently they decided to discontinue that service. So what I've decided to do instead, is to send out my update notifications to the members of my online community. I've had this community running for a year or so now, but just haven't been advertising it. Now that I've got over a thousand members in the community, I suppose it is safe to say that it has gained enough popularity to let you all know about it.
So drop into my community, and if you would like to find out when I update my site with new information or recipes (which happens about every three months or so), join up and perhaps even participate in some of the lively conversations that are going on.
Feedback
And as always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for information you'd like to see available here, just let me know.
DrinkBoy
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