Clik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Applejack Rabbit
So, if you’ve been wondering when I’d finally get around to finding a source for cocktails other than Harry Craddock’s 1930 “The Savoy Cocktail Book,” this is your week, more or less. Like Craddock’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Gloom Lifter
David A. Embury opened his epochal “The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks” with these words: “Anyone can make good cocktails.” It’s clear that you don’t need to be a genius to do it, and I have often proven...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Waldorf Gloom Lifter
Last week found me possibly a dollar short and definitely a day late for St. Patrick’s Day, but at least the drink was good. The Gloom Lifter was essentially a whiskey sour with egg white, made with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Chatham Cocktail
Looking up “Chatham” on Wikipedia, I can count some 15-plus municipalities in the United States and Canada with the name, alongside numerous neighborhood and towns with the word “Chatham” in them....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Red Line
No need to go into details about the geekiness that brought me there, but this last Easter Sunday found this very secular Jew in downtown L.A. Not wanting to waste an opportunity to hit one of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Chocolate Flip
The Chocolate Flip doesn’t contain the slightest hint of anything remotely chocolate. No, in the manner of its very close relative, the Coffee Cocktail, the Chocolate Flip blends brandy and a whole egg...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: La Paloma (Revisited)
This Thursday is Cinco de Mayo, and that’s as good an excuse as any to revisit what I’m guessing is the world’s second most popular tequila cocktail. Indeed, this year I’ve got an additional excuse,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Keys of the Kingdom (TCM Fest 2016 Salute #1)
Every year since it’s inception, the organizers of the TCM Classic Film Festival have been letting me in without paying. Most of those years, I’ve been celebrating that fact by putting together my own...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (TCM Fest 2016 Salute #2)
When superstar film distributor Michael Schlesinger introduced 1934’s “Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back” at TCM Fest 2016 as the greatest movie we in the audience had never seen, I was inclined to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Band Wagon (TCM Fest Salute #3)
For fans of classic era film musicals, 1953’s “The Bandwagon” usually ranks somewhere just below “Singin’ in the Rain” in terms of sheer greatness. Devotees of director Vincente Minelli might even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
A truly smart and well-written sex comedy is a thing of beauty and not an everyday occurrence — rare in the past and rarer still in the present. Indeed, my film-besotted compatriots and I had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The LeMANade
As I’ve mentioned here about 20,000 times, my approach to Drink of the Week is that these are reasonably quick and easy to make cocktails for the home, not major DIY projects. While I love the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Country Gentleman
Although today’s drink comes to us from David Embury’s 1940s cocktail classic, “The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks,” it doesn’t really have any particular story to go with its classy provenance or courtly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Betsy Ross Cocktail
It’s almost Independence Day weekend and, as our nation veers towards either electing its first woman president or it’s last male president, maybe it makes sense to honor one of the few founding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Mickie Walker Cocktail
Early last month, the world mourned — something the world has been doing way too much of lately — the passing of Muhammad Ali, a boxer who transcended his sport in so many ways that even a complete...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Hawaiian Cocktail
I’m not sure how it was that you could call a drink The Hawaiian Cocktail back in the day without including any specifically Hawaiian ingredients, but that was apparently the case when “The Savoy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: Warday’s Cocktail
You may wonder how I go about picking out the drinks here at DOTW. A lot of the time, it has something to do with what I’ve got laying around the palatial North Hollywood premises of Drink of the Week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: Rye’d N Dirty
In the U.S., whiskey cannot be sold as rye unless it is distilled from at least 51 percent rye grain. In Canada, there is no such rule. Therfore, as I understand it, a lot of what we call Canadian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Japanese Cocktail
Just as there was nothing particularly Hawaiian about the Hawaiian Cocktail a few weeks back, there is nothing particularly Japanese, or even remotely Asian, about the Japanese Cocktail. There is,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drink of the Week: The Jasmine Cocktail (Robert Hess’s Take)
I found the Jasmine Cocktail, or simply Jasmine, in Robert Hess’s oh so reliable “The Essential Bartender’s Guide.” Today’s recipe, however, is actually the second version of the recipe that Hess...
View Article