Year: 2010
-
The Boulevardier
Named after The Paris Boulevardier, a magazine printed in Paris for expats and modeled after The New Yorker, this cocktail is another from the pages of the fantastic Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. The Boulevardier is clearly related to the Negroni, but what’s really interesting is that this recipe was printed 20 years before the…
-
Twelve Mile Limit – The Bartenders Got it Right
There’s no doubt that the lawmakers got a lot of things wrong during Prohibition. The bartenders, on the other hand, were right. The Twelve Mile Limit definitely exemplifies that statement. The drink is well balanced, extremely flavorful and, overall, tremendously pleasing. In this week’s picture I decided to share a bit of my insanity in…
-
Prohibition Weirdness – The Chemist’s War
In my meanderings about the internet looking for information about Prohibition, territorial waters and the like I was directed to The Chemist’s War, a recent article on Slate.com. “The Chemist’s War” discusses some Prohibition history that was not only completely new to me, but also more than a little distressing. Not to give away the…
-
Twelve Mile Limit
I’m exceedingly thankful that Prohibition was repealed. Let me reiterate. Thank you to the people who were level headed enough to get rid of this bit of legal weirdness. We all know about the major details of the time but there are also some really interesting details that are rarely discussed. For example, one nuance…
-
Park Avenue – New York in the Tropics?
Ted Haigh questions the logic of naming this drink the Park Avenue in Vintage Cocktails and Forgotten Spirits. “Note, if you will, the tropical character, invoking Carmen Miranda strutting down a Palm Beach boulevard. As I say, the names of this and the Palm Beach Special preceding it, were obviously switched at birth.” Definitely on…