Some Post-Tales Reflections on The American Bartender of The Year
Posted on July 28, 2010
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Ted Munat is a Seattle-based fan of good spirits and a co-author of Left Coast Libations, available right-the-hell-now at leftcoastlibations.com. He blogs at Le Mixeur.
My last day in New Orleans was Sunday, July 25th. That day at noon, being a few hours away from my flight departure, an hour past having checked out of my hotel after getting one hour of sleep, and 6 hours after having gotten caught in the mighty aqua force of Tropical Storm Bonnie on Iberville Street, I was interviewed by Tim McNally on AM 690 WIST New Orleans. Barely moments into the interview, and before I’d really even gotten my bearings, Tim asked me what got me into this whole cocktail field.
Oddly enough, I had no prepared answer for this. I’d never really thought about it. It just kind of seemed to happen. But faced with the embarrassment of making my live radio debut by saying, “uhmmmmm,” I quickly reached into the proper spot of my subconscious and fetched the real answer. The real answer was, quite simply, Murray Stenson.
