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A Poem. By Henry Gibson.

QuestionableSwami — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:02 -0800

Character actor and comedian Henry Gibson died today at 73. As an original member of the ground-breaking comedy series Laugh-In, Gibson's characters The Poet and the cocktail party priest helped make the show a wild success. Gibson also had a long career as an actor, both in television (most recently as Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal) and film. Some of his more memorable performances were in Robert Altman's Nashville (receiving a nomination for a Golden Globe for his role as country singer Haven Hamilton), The Long Goodbye, The 'Burbs, and The Blues Brothers.

A culture of sophisticated drinking

Astro Zombie — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:56:17 -0800

A little more than a year after leaving New Orleans, I miss the culture of sophisticated drinking. Sure, maybe not on Bourbon Street, home of the sickly sweet hurricane and Hand Grenade. But you head off Bourbon and you can get a very pleasant Pimms cup at the Napoleon House. And just down the street is a military antiques store that was once the pharmacy where Antoine Amadie Peychaud invented the sazerac, which lays claims to being the word's oldest cocktail. Any good bartender in New Orleans will be able to make you one; finding a sazerac-capable bartender outside the city is almost impossible. Of course, just outside the French Quarter, in the Fairmont Hotel, is the Sazerac bar, but, surprisingly, their specialty is not the sazerac, but the favorite drink of Huey Long, the delicious Ramos Gin Fizz. Nearby, back in the Quarter, on an upper floor of the Pharmacy Museum, was the former home of the Museum of the American Cocktail -- now seemingly in transit after Katrina. At the opening, cocktail chef Dale Degroff served up his specialty -- pre-Prohibition cocktails, including a brandy crusta that still makes me weep from the pleasure of it. Sure, up here in Minneapolis we invented the cosmopolitan, but somehow a drink that's also become popular as a perfume doesn't have that same Crescent City je ne sais quoi.

Tips from behind the counter

tellurian — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:21:26 -0800

The view (with humour) from two people who serve you drinks. One a cocktail waitress in Vegas, the other a bartender in Cincinnati.

The Sourtoe Cocktail

DevilsAdvocate — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:33:41 -0800

Do it fast or do it slow, but the lips must touch the toe.

Clamato, Canada, Caesar Cocktail

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:08:24 -0800

Hangover Heaven By The Sea: In 1969, Canadian Montenegran Walter Chell invented the Caesar Cocktail as the perfect reflection of (and introduction to) Italian food, by mixing tomato juice, clam juice and oregano with Brazilian lime juice and Russian vodka. Canada, Montenegro, Italy, Russia, Brazil, California: is this the perfect multi-ethnic hangover-buster or what? [More inside.]

Richard Carlier's Cocktail Database

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 03 May 2003 15:48:41 -0800

The Cocktail Season Is Upon Us! Get That Cocktail Season Off Of Me! For I regret, Mesdames, Messieurs, that 2003's best little cocktail website is in French. Sacré Bleu! [More inside.]

aj100 — Thu, 19 Jul 2001 08:34:00 -0800

Almost the weekend. A handy little site that will help you feel a little tippsy.