Big Fish, Small Pond
Darcy O’Neil is a bartender and chemist in London, Ontario. He publishes The Art of Drink.
The world of book publishing has changed significantly with the fiendishly rapid development of the Internet. Less than a decade ago, if you wanted to publish a book you needed to get a publisher, or if excessive rejection wasn’t your [...]
The Smooth and Creamy History of the Fern Bar
Kara Newman (Spice & Ice) is the New York-based author of “Spice & Ice: 60 tongue-tingling cocktails” (Chronicle Books, 2009) and Spirits Reviewer for Wine Enthusiast magazine.
Avid devotees of the 1970s smash hit Three’s Company might remember this place:
If you don’t, well, that may be for the better. But it’s the Regal Beagle, the quintessential [...]
Bartending in the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s (the dark ages)
Fred Yarm is a writer, imbiber, and bitters maker in Boston, Massachusetts, and one of the authors of the Cocktail Virgin blog.
You hear a lot lately about the Golden Age of Cocktails, drinks during Prohibition, and the modern resurgence in craft cocktails; however, what happened in between those last two eras? Brian Rea, a 60 year [...]
Umami in Cocktails
Darcy O’Neil is a bartender and chemist in London, Ontario. He publishes The Art of Drink.
In the culinary world umami is an extremely important component of great food, in the cocktail world, not so much. The key reason for this is that the benefits of the umami flavour in cocktails hasn’t really been explored by [...]
The Hotel Grunewald, Roosevelt and Fairmont – Over 100 Years of Cocktail History
Tiare Olsen (A Mountain of Crushed Ice) hails from Stockholm, Sweden and is a passionate cocktail and spirits geek with a special love for tropical and tiki drinks.
Let’s go to New Orleans…and let’s go back in time… If you are interested in the history and folklore attached to the great New Orleans hotels that have gone [...]
