Happy New Year, friends. 2007 was quite the year, in ways both positive and negative, but we came out of it hale and hearty and hoping that 2008 will keep all the promise it presently holds. As such, I’m cleaning out the queue and posting a lingerer—a post that I really meant to publish before [...]

My boyfriend is cheating on me with, of all people, another cocktail blogger. It’s a hard reality to cope with, but I suppose if his eye was going to wander it only makes sense that he’d look to someone dashing and talented like Jeffrey Morgenthaler. In the past month, he’s made every single bourbon-based [...]

So. By this point, you may have noticed that I don’t often post about recipes gone wrong. I don’t tell you about the drinks I make that are on the “meh” side of boring, the ones that are mixed improperly or those that are just plain old bad. This information isn’t shared primarily because I’m [...]

Like many people, I have a latent pyromaniacal streak that kicks up whenever presented with the opportunity to do anything in the kitchen that involves fire. It is perhaps better for everyone I know that I have not yet given in to the temptation to purchase a kitchen blowtorch, as that is a trip to [...]

Happy Repeal Day Mixology Monday, everyone! As usual, I’m late to the party, as I (naturally) forgot my camera elsewhere over Thanksgiving and just got it back.
The theme of this month’s challenge has to do with a very special day, that being December 5th, the anniversary of the day that the 21st amendment was ratified, [...]