Posts Tagged ‘Putting the Cock back in Cocktail’
The Sudsbuster He was one of the mellow, the soft-spoken, the tawny-haired — one who preferred to be alone. His name was Mark, a dishwasher at age 45. He was a drifter, a loner. He valued his freedom above all. Dishwashing jobs he could always find. Our paths crossed and re-crossed at the Café Claire, where […]
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In bartending, as in life, the fundamental things apply. And time goes by. Thank you for watching.
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Rum, like the hangovers it can create, is a side-effect, a by-product: a by-product of the juice that comes from sugarcane. This, really, is one of the few definitive things you can say about the origins of rum. Rum, for instance, may or may not have been invented by Portuguese colonists operating along the […]
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Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog: Thank you for watching.
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Is there any cocktail that gets people as lathered up about technique as the Old-Fashioned? If there is, I don’t know about it. Come and have a drink with the unwashed.
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011