Drinking Well: The Trident

After so many years working in the culinary business, I cannot say how much I relish the incredibly broad, diverse, fascinating, inspiring group of colleagues I've had the pleasure to interact with over the years. And it is so very satisfying to cheer them in their accomplishments and milestones, tip [...]

2020-01-24T00:22:11+00:00October 7th, 2016|Cocktails, Culinary Community, Spirits|

Dark and Stormy: Ginger, meet Rum

I guess it's a twist on turning lemons into lemonade, but in this case it was a matter of turning ginger into ginger syrup. I'd done a photo shoot recently for an ebook project that I'll tell you more about soon. I over-bought some items needed for the recipes, considering that [...]

2013-08-09T08:42:19+00:00August 9th, 2013|Cocktails, Food and Drink|

Drinking Right on Game Night

It's pretty easy to get wrapped up in all the great food options that surround an ideal game night scenario: mini serving dishes, favorite game-friendly ingredients (endive leaves, cocktail bread, mini tart shells), fun little picks and skewers to use, finger-food menu plans and such. But at some point you and your [...]

2011-04-26T19:15:16+00:00April 26th, 2011|entertaining ideas|

Sipping Olympic History

Having had a fabulous trip to Vancouver, BC earlier this year, which included a cocktail or two (plus an amazing dinner) at Yew in the Four Seasons Hotel, it grabbed my attention to read about the Olympics-themed cocktails recently unveiled for the restaurant. The Games will be starting in 127 days, and [...]

2009-10-08T09:06:12+00:00October 8th, 2009|Food and Drink, Spirits|

A Great NYC Bar: Blue Ribbon Downing Street

Still making it through that too-big pile of papers that accumulated through last year....and found more New York notes that I haven't yet dealt with from my summer trip. I can't recall what the ultimate destination was for the evening, but for starters we gathered at Blue Ribbon Downing Street [...]

2009-01-18T11:39:05+00:00January 18th, 2009|Restaurants, Travel|
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