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Absinthe of ‘Alice’
Bernard Black (proprietor of Black Books) referred to it as ‘the drink that makes you want to kill yourself.’ Oscar Wilde claimed, ‘After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they...
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Papa’s Pilar: Preach, Pater; Preach, Preach…
‘Yo ho ho and a solera of rum…’ said no pirate ever. Pirates have been given a historical pass in popular culture, at least the old school ones. They appear as cartoon buffoons like Captain Hook,...
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Re: Re:Find: A Re:Markable Find
(This piece, as well as the last two columns posted, are excerpts from ‘A Rite Of Paso: Paso Robles Wine Country’ to be released December 1, 2013 by Intoxicology Press, LLC.) If Alex Trebek posed the...
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Guy Wicker Is The Heisenberg Of Hootch
Lissen up, Albuquerque undercover: I found Heisenberg, and he’s not dead. He’s not Walter White and he’s not even in New Mexico. He’s in Southfield, Michigan and he’s switched his drug dementias...
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Grand Traverse Distillery: Taking Their Best Shot
It’s an interesting question in any case: Does appellation play the same role—or any role—in defining a liquor’s quality as it does a wine’s? Or is it purely marketing schtick? Le Montrachet I ask...
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Springtime Cocktails à Go-Go!
When someone from an upscale firm in uptown Manhattan queries you regarding ‘re-creating’ some springtime drink recipes, you know they are not only going to be scenester ‘it’ drinks, but boisterously,...
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The Gindenburg: ‘Oh, The Ginanity’
It’s six in the morning and shortly, Hendrick’s Gin wants to get me up inside a giant flying pickle. Technically, it’s a flying cucumber, but technically again, a pickle is merely a cucumber that...
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PB&J’s Ultimate FUBAR: Aske Not, Want Not
For reasons to be revealed later (or not), Mme KGP has filed the social media equivalent of a restraining order, which probably means she is forbidden from reading my demure disquisitions on the...
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Yo Ho Ho, Diplomático
Ever have one of those nifty, treasure-trove moments where you find a cache of cash in some random article of clothing? And isn’t the moment all the more delicious when the discovery happens inside one...
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The World’s 10 Most Expensive Cocktails
Jiminy Glick’s playful interview with Mel Brooks culminates in the zany lardbucket asking Brooks, ‘So, Mel—what’s your big beef with the Nazis anyway?” Were Glick to interview yours truly, the loveable...
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