Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Bacon
can you smell it?
1 Comment » - Posted in meat by Phil
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Season Shot a Damp Squib
I’ve seen Season Shot come up a couple of times recently, today on the Improbable Research blog, and a few months ago on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. The tagline is “Ammo With Flavor”, and the idea is that it’s shotgun shot with seasoning in it, so you shoot the bird and just stick […]
No Comments » - Posted in hunting by Phil
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Anti-Juicebox #1, or experiments in Cosmology
A lot of cocktail scorn is heaped upon the Cosmopolitan, a.k.a. the Juice Box for Yuppies (thus spake Nick Noyes*). For his book Esquire Drinks, David Wondrich chooses not a photo of, say, the drink, but instead a baby bottle. That’s my kind of condescension. However, not so far off the mark, being […]
1 Comment » - Posted in cocktails by Phil
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Food vs. Food products
Michael Pollan in the NYT today:
if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
If you haven’t ready his books, leave the house […]
No Comments » - Posted in opp by Phil
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
VSFC #4: The Pegu Club
Date: January 27, 2007
Ingredients: Plymouth gin, Cointreau, fresh Persian lime juice*, Angostura
Note: This cocktail is the namesake of a 19th century British officers’ club in Burma, so infamous, in fact, that Audrey Saunders named her mixology lab after it.
Ted notes that some recipes for the Pegu Club call for curacao, which is what […]
1 Comment » - Posted in vsfc, cocktails by Phil
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Cara Cara Orange Pr0n
suuu-weeet
Info on Cara Cara oranges
Cara Cara Orange Vanilla Sorbet from Sweet Napa
No Comments » - Posted in citrus by Phil
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
Ingredients
Persian lime: the limes that are typically sold in supermarkets in the U.S. (wikipedia)
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Phil
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
VSFC #3: The Negroni
Date: January 24, 2007
Ingredients: Plymouth gin, M&R sweet vermouth, Campari
Notes: This was the second proper cocktail I ever had, and was what really got me interested in them. VSFC instructs to serve this without ice, which was the first time I’d done so. I think I like this better, since the flavors get […]
3 Comments » - Posted in vsfc by Phil
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
VSFC #2: The Scoff Law
Date: January 24, 2007
Ingredients: Rittenhouse 100 Bottled-in-Bond rye (at $14 a bottle, the best deal out there on anything), M&R dry vermouth, fresh true lemon juice, Fee Brothers American Beauty Grenadine
Notes: Very nice. This is similar to my current favorite, the Ward 8, but with the addition of vermouth and without sugar. Well-balanced […]
No Comments » - Posted in vsfc by Phil
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
VSFC #1: Classic 1950s Martini
Date: January 22nd, 2007
Ingredients: Plymouth gin, M&R dry vermouth, Fee Brothers orange bitters
Notes: I don’t like martinis. I like gin, but not nearly straight up.
almost as boring as vodka
