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Author Archives: By JONATHAN MILES
Shaken & Stirred: 500-Year-Old Liqueur Hits the Cocktail Circuit
December 24, 2009 – 11:44 pm
Damon Dyer prepares a Monte Cassino.Bénédictine, which celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2010, has evolved from a bitter medicine formulated by French monks into a fancy-schmantzy after-dinner liqueur.
Shaken & Stirred: Once, It Required a Trip to Barbados
December 20, 2009 – 10:06 am
The Oak Bar’s centuries-old posset, updated.The Oak Room at the Plaza revives the Posset, an ancient, festive cocktail.
Shaken & Stirred: The Choices? Rum and Rum
December 11, 2009 – 10:54 pm
A Rum Manhattan at Roneria Caracas.Roneria Caracas, which opened last month inside Caracas Brooklyn, is the latest incarnation of what could be the next new thing in drinking.
Shaken & Stirred: A Frozen Julep, Fresh Off the Vine
December 7, 2009 – 2:05 pm
For a Tipsy Parson julep, add grape juice, freeze.To some die-hards, drinking a julep from anything but a silver or pewter julep cup is a blasphemy on the level of drinking communion wine from a high-heel shoe.
Shaken & Stirred: Barkeep, a Placebo on the Rocks, Please
November 21, 2009 – 10:17 pm
Take this and call me in the morning.Bartenders, normally dispensers of pleasure, have lately been playing doctor behind the bar.
Shaken & Stirred: Out With the New, in With the Old
November 1, 2009 – 3:09 am
Reading vintage bartending manuals can be a winsome treat. But mixing drinks from their recipes can be a different matter.
Shaken & Stirred: Cheers Minus the Beers: Let’s Drink to Small Talk
October 19, 2009 – 9:15 pm
Sure, they’ll talk weather.Increasingly solemn, the new breed of bartender, found at cocktail-centric bars keeps a strict and near-exclusive focus on what’s inside the glass.
Shaken & Stirred: Tom Brady, Pretty in Pink?
October 8, 2009 – 8:51 am
Roethlisberger is to beer as Brady is to … ?The American sports bar, that age-old nexus of unabashed testosterone and Milwaukee-brewed beer, is getting a makeover. Call it the Brady Effect.
Shaken & Stirred: A Liquid Keepsake
September 19, 2009 – 9:44 pm
A red currant and cocoa cocktail at Arrows Restaurant in Ogunquit, Me.The signature cocktail at wedding receptions has gone, in the last few years, from optional to almost obligatory.