Who’s Your Daddy? A Mai Tai Paternity Test
It`s only about five weeks left until the Tales of the Cocktail 2011 kicks off in New Orleans and it´s time to present a few of the sessions i`m planning to attend this year. If you`re planning to go it`s high time to book your sessions they´re running out [...]
Consider the Negroni … the perfect cocktail?
Do you remember your first Negroni?
I do. It was way back in the early days of my cocktail journey, when I was a mere cocktail toddler. One of the many silly things I thought I “knew” then was that I hated Campari, the frighteningly red (colored with bugs, eww!) and bitter (gaah!) potion that [...]
Preemptive Strike: Secret Rums
Continuing with the pre-Tales festivities, we check in with Ed Hamilton. Ed is a noted authority on rum, and has written about various sugar cane spirits for a number of magazines and newspapers. He has also written two books on the subject, and is probably most familiar to rum enthusiasts for his work at the [...]
Sodatender or Barjerk: Lost Secrets Revealed?
Last year I had the best Ramos Gin Fizz I’d ever had in my life.
As a New Orleanian I’ve had a lot of ‘em, good and bad. (The nadir was the one at an unnamed restaurant which should have known better; it had so much orange flower water in it that it tasted like hand [...]
6 Rums You’ll Probably Never Taste Again
It`s only about 2 months left until the Tales of the Cocktail 2011 kicks off in New Orleans and it´s time to present a few of the sessions this year. If you`re planning to go it`s high time to book your sessions they´re running out FAST!
The session called ” 6 Rums You`ll [...]
Hotel Monteleone: 125 Years of History
A Pre-Tales Q&A with panel moderator Philip Greene
One of the star attractions at Tales of the Cocktail every year isn’t a TV personality or even a bartender, but the city of New Orleans itself. Participants (myself included) are continually charmed, awed, dazzled and wooed by the Big Easy. I could fill this page with florid, [...]
Preemptive Strike: Colonial American Drinks
Next up in this series of pre-Tales dispatches is a brief Q &A with Wayne Curtis. Wayne is a freelance journalist who has written for many fine periodicals including The New York Times, Saveur, The Atlantic and Travel+Leisure. However, booze geeks likely know him best as the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A [...]
New Orleans, LA – June 1, 2011 — Nominees have been chosen by a group of esteemed members of the cocktail industry for the prestigious Spirited Awards™. The Ceremony will be held in New Orleans on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, as part of the international festival, Tales of the Cocktail® [...]
Swizzling Around The World, Here And Now
It`s only about 2 months left until the Tales of the Cocktail 2011 kicks off in New Orleans and it´s time to present some of the sessions for this year. If you`re planning to go it`s high time to book your sessions they´re running out FAST!
Let`s go back in the [...]
