Crime Fiction and Negroni Week
Excellent novelists. Perfect drink....
Memorial Day: Thanks, Cocktails, Commencement
A thankful Memorial Day....
The Vesper
I do not much care for cocktails started by movies, reality shows, or Instagram influencers....
“Ain’t No Sunshine”: Subpoenas, Cocktails, Crosby, and Poetry
Search warrants. Cocktails and Bing Crosby. A Turkish poet....
Vantage Drilling, General Lee and the Culture of Compliance
Gin is a noble spirit; without vermouth, perhaps a lonely one. Similarly, having a compliance program, yet failing to follow it in the presence of...
Thanksgiving Notebook: Bing, Booze, Book of Common Prayer
Unlike the music of Christmas or Easter, the music of Thanksgiving is harder to pinpoint. Shuffling leaves? The drum-brush strokes of a knife carving the...
The Gibson: Thanks, Given
If one writes poetry in bound verse, the poet must follow the rules or the form loses its character. “Blank verse” is written in un-rhymed...
Gin Van, Joan Collins and Rare Earth
Friday is upon us, so a few notes about cocktails. The cocktail snob is suffering a (deserved) backlash, as Robert O. Simonson of the New York...
The Drinking Reader, Our Cocktails Magazine, Tom Jones and Other Weekend Matters
White Collar Wire supports cocktails. As part of that effort, I have a magazine on Flipboard called (helpfully) “Cocktails.” Follow here, read on and use good...
Come Fly With Me: Airplane Drinks, Beer For Breakfast, Cocktail Science and Socrates
Our notes on cocktails this Friday. From Gastronomista, an Avua Cachaca Pam Am cocktail: I was recently introduced to Avuá Cachaça, a relatively new cachaça...