The Carpet-Licker and the Cosmo
June 26th, 2014 | Bartending | journalpulp | 22 CommentsAnd other fine, fine cocktails from the 1980’s: Possibly Related: Getting Numb with Rum
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Gin And The Murky Origins Of The Martini
October 24th, 2012 | Bartending | journalpulp | 2 CommentsIn hell, said Randal Jarell, Americans tell each other how to make a martini. A martini — “the elixir of quietude” as E.B. White described it — consists of gin and vermouth. The ingredients are chilled and then strained into a cocktail glass. That, at any rate, is the original martini, though vodka is now, […]
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The Unsolved Mystery Of Comte De Saint Germain
February 26th, 2012 | Comte De Saint Germain | journalpulp | 2 CommentsIn my occupation, I serve a great deal of St. Germain (elderflower liquor), and it got me thinking: The Count of St. Germain, it turns out (purported death: February 27, 1784), was among other things a violinist, pianist, composer, inventor, traveler, courtier, adventurer, armchair scientist and alchemist, writer, wit, self-mythologizer, and brilliant conversationalist. He was, […]
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