Author: mlgoodson
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An autumnal tipple and a bonus…
B was in the mood for something “autumnal” when she ran across this little concoction on the Imbibe website. They found the Sinsear, the brainchild of Yvette Leeper-Bueno, owner of Vinatería in Harlem, in the Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook. Curiously, no mention was made of the name; sinsear is Irish for ancestor? At any rate,…
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The Millionaire #4
As the title intimates, this isn’t a simple story. B found the version of which we partook tonight in Ted Haigh‘s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. He reprises his from a 1937 version. This, of course, sent me down the rabbit hole of unanswerable questions (25 years in science. That rabbit is like, when is…
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Americano
The last throws of summer have been unrelentingly hot here, leading us to want something more on the light and refreshing side for our afternoon imbibing. We have don’t a number of spritzes already, including the the Venetian Spritz, the Bitter Intentions and the Negroni Sbagliato, so we decided to go with a classic this…
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The Journalist Cocktail
As most people know, B & I are unapologetic in our assertion that the modern martini is undrinkable. First off, it’s usually not a martini; it’s strained gin with an olive. Secondly, I just can’t get my head around gin and dry vermouth (at say 4 or 5:1). The martini’s predecessor, the Martinez, is interesting,…
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Voyager
We are now officially mired in the swelter of summer, leaving us languishing for the ocean breezes of the South Pacific. Obviously, something Tiki was in order, which is ironic, since if you want islands with a long tradition of rum drinks, you’re in the wrong ocean. Be that as it may, B found a…
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The Tulip Cocktail
I was looking for a preprandial cocktail when I came across the Tulip in Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book. It looked like a interesting combination of a few oddball things I had. Being straight out of a vintage cocktail book (ca. 1930), I figured it might need a bit of tweaking for a modern…
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French Pearl
I was flipping through Twitter yesterday when I noticed an interesting tweet about a cocktail called a French Pearl from the self-described “dowager bartender and industry Den mother”, Audrey Saunders. She also happens to be a pillar of the cocktail world and proprietor of the New York’s legendary Pegu Club. In her tweet she describes…
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The Running of the Gins
Recently B connected two saliently fortuitous details. 1) Our cocktail bookshelf has at least two volumes dedicated to gin, and 2) we have a copious examples of gins in our cabinet. Seemed like a prime opportunity for a couple of academics to make a scholarly study of the subject. And realizing the importance of peer…
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Hanky Panky Cocktail
As a tribute to the recently celebrated International Women’s Day, we thought we would give today’s cocktail, the Hanky Panky cocktail, a whirl. It’s creation was credited to one Ada Coleman, the head bartender at the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel from 1903 to 1925 and one of only two women to hold that…
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Crux
B and I were thumbing through several of our cocktail volumes looking for a suitable tipple to kick off 2017, when we came across the Crux in Robert Hess‘s The Essential Bartender’s Guide. It looked promising. Nice classic cocktail structure; at least one odd-ball booze. What’s not to love. I got to looking into the cocktail, and…