Category: alcohol
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de gustibus As many of you probably already know, for the past few years I’ve been learning about cocktails. By studying their history, developing techniques, and testing and formulating recipes,… more ›
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Orange liqueur is difficult to understand, probably because there’s more than one dominant style. The fact that it’s an ingredient in so many diverse cocktails—just think of the flavor profiles… more ›
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Here is my margarita recipe that I published for the first time on Twitter for cinco de mayo. Since my tweets automatically delete after a few days I decided to… more ›
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Peanut butter whiskey is apparently a thing. And our friend Chris wanted to try some cocktails with pbw during her visit. So today, in the name of science, we conducted… more ›
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Originally, this drink, that I designed after translating Bruno Schulz’s “Undula” and in honor of its release, which took place at midnight in Schulz’s hometown in western Ukraine, was called… more ›
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My most recent fantasy: live part-time in Havana and start an English-language walking tour, modeled after Brendan’s Isherwood’s Neighborhood tour in Berlin, retracing the sites and scenes of Reinaldo Arenas’… more ›
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Twenty-one years ago he was traveling by train from Warsaw to Szczecin with his friends in the Corps. It was late and after a bottle or two of Żubrówka. He wanted to doze,… more ›
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Madonna’s “Nothing Really Matters” was on heavy rotation on British Airways on-flight music programming during the summer of 1998 while he enjoyed his summer break from teaching in Japan. He… more ›
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He remembers: the last time he heard a live cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” was late February 1996 in a basement pizza parlor in Budapest before heading… more ›
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In a year of Thursdays, today remains the greatest Thursday of all. Today is not only World Philosophy Day but also the day on which the Beaujolais nouveau is released. I… more ›