What is Umami? Ponder the oyster. Tom yum. Carne asada. All umami. Don't try to define it! Just surrender to the addiction; savor the flavor implosion.
Anders: Maybe the octopus wasn’t big enough? Small ambitions, small payouts bla bla bla. You should’ve...
tomo: this is exactly why I do not eat octopus, did someone say “suction cups?!” no thank you very much.
yoko: Yamahomo – Okay I’ll try the flash frozen types. But this ordeal might have turned me off from...
Vanessa Bahmani: Thanks for the post. I too wish we would have been able to post while in NOLA, but it was just...
June 23, 2010
For a long time I’ve been hounding my local wine merchant, T.B. Ackerson, to stock some vermouths in order to save me the constant pilgrimage to Manhattan’s Astor Wines, which is one of the few places that stocks a variety of quality vermouths–and I go through a fair amount
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May 12, 2010
New York has always been a great city, but this week its greatness gets bumped up a notch, as the first annual Manhattan Cocktail Classic rolls into town, along with some of the country’s best and brightest mixological minds. Accurately described as
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May 5, 2010
It’s that time of year again folks! That’s right, it’s Cinco de Mayo, or as some call it, “Cinco de Drinko,” which is Americans’ favorite Mexican holiday that most Mexicans don’t celebrate.
Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not the day of Mexican independence. That would
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April 28, 2010
Every few years or so it seems the brains of the folks down in Arizona (aka God’s underwear chafe) burst with a brilliant idea that seems to justify the rest of the world’s perception of them as backwards ass, gun-toting, cactus-chewing clodhoppers.
In the early 90s they decided they’d rather
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March 25, 2010
March 3, 2010
In the world of mixology, there aren’t many cocktails based on Cognac relative to the other spirits. I can count less than twenty old recipes off the top of my head, which is really not much, considering a quarter are mere variations of each other, and another
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February 10, 2010
So the Saints finally won a Super Bowl, and while many of you surely pounded Hurricanes to celebrate, here in the Eastern Seaboard, the weather conditions don’t quite call out for something so tropical. In other words, there’s a blizzard happening right outside my door. Of course when it
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November 25, 2009
There’s no two ways about it, I likes me a good Manhattan. I likes me one any time of year really, but I especially likes me one during fall. There’s something about the bracing combination of whiskey and sweet vermouth that warms my soul and
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November 18, 2009
“A good Sherris-Sack…ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish, and dull, and crudy vapours which environ it, makes it apprehensive, quick, inventive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shape, which delivered o’er to the voice which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.”–Shakespeare’s
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November 11, 2009
Perhaps you were thinking that the cocktails presented here in Happy Hour are too fussy. And perchance you wondered if there are drinks you could make that could astonish your tastebuds without inducing exhaustion from the process. You do, after all, have
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