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The featured book:
Reprint available On:
How To Mix Drinks
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The Bon Vivant's Companion
by Jerry Thomas
Originally published in 1862, this
book represents the first bartender's guide ever published. It has just recently
been reprinted in a wonderful facimile edition by New Day Publishing. |
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Adventures in Cocktails
Size Matters
Sometimes
the simplest things can be just outside of our notice. I hadn't really payed
much attention to how big my cocktail glasses were, nor was I really doing
a good job at keeping my cocktail recipes a consistent size. In Adjusting The Volume
I share with you some of the experimentations that I did on my various cocktail
glasses, and how I determined the size that one of these days I'll need to
re-adjust all of my recipes to fit.
Summer Refresher
One of our readers recommended that we showcase the Moscow Mule
as a wonderful drink for a warm summer afternoon. Then we remembered a drink
created by Audrey Saunders, one of the premier bartenders of New York, that
we think is clearly superior. Audrey uses the Gin-Gin Mule
as the drink she uses when somebody claims that they don't like gin. And
even though we love a good gin, we also love this wonderful drink.
Recent Additions
Cocktails:
Chaplin, De La Louisiane, French Quarter, Gin-Gin Mule, Jamaican Firefly, Moscow Mule, Southern Beauty, Tillicum
Web Sites:
ChefTools, MartiniWare, Nicolas Roberts, RestaurantPage, 67Wine
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Photo WebLog
You can visit my new photo weblog over on textamerica.com to see some of
bars I visit, cocktails I try, and the people I am hanging out with.
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At Your Service I'd like to try to make sure that this site
is as useful as possible to your quest in understanding quality cocktails.
Toward that end, I am incorporating various capabilities and services into
this site as appears useful and appropriate to my users. Here are some of
the ways that you can get more use out of my site:
Mobile DrinkBoy
I've published all of the cocktail recipes that I list on my site as an AvantGo Channel. This allows you to download these recipes to many different types of mobile devices and always have them with you.
Mailing List
As you may have noticed, I don't update
my site on any sort of a regular basis. Many of my users have asked me to
let them know when I post new articles so that they can check them out. For
a while, I used ListBot to send out mailing to all of my faithfull readers,
but recently they decided to discontinue that service. So what I've decided
to do instead, is to send out my update notifications to the members of my
online community. I've had this community running for a year or so now, but
just haven't been advertising it. Now that I've got over a thousand members
in the community, I suppose it is safe to say that it has gained enough popularity
to let you all know about it.
So drop into my community, and if you would like to find out when I update
my site with new information or recipes (which happens about every three
months or so), join up and perhaps even participate in some of the lively
conversations that are going on.
Feedback And as always, if you have any questions, comments,
or suggestions for information you'd like to see available here, just let
me know.
DrinkBoy
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