Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the first day of summer and it calls for a cocktail that will be great for those hot days spent with friends by the pool. A Watermelon Vodka cooler, perhaps? Maybe when you were younger,…
I don't know how it came up in conversation, but my good friend Carolyn was telling me about drinking tomato beer during her summers in Savannah. My first thought about combining beer with tomato juice was "Yuck. That cannot be…
Getting dressed for the pool last weekend convinced me that it was time to go back on a diet. What a drag. When I'm watching my weight, giving up alcohol is one of the first things I have to do.…
The Monkey Gland cocktail wins the prize for the oddest name and the most interesting origin. According to Ted Haigh's go-to guide, Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails, the drink came from the famous Harry's New York Bar in Paris in the…
Inspired by the fresh mint and new batch of strawberries out of my garden, I'm celebrating the beginning of warm weather with Strawberry Mojitos on my front porch tonight. This also gives me a chance to break out the Centenario Añejo…
With the opening this weekend of Baz Luhrmann's 'Great Gatsby' remake, it seems appropriate to serve up a Prohibition-era cocktail that is visually dazzling - The Aviation Cocktail. This jewel-toned cocktail is made of gin, fresh lemon juice, maraschino liqueur…
It's only the first week in May but already my garden is overrun with spearmint. It's not to the point where it's choking out my carrots or strawberry plants yet, but give it couple of weeks with some steady rain…
Here in Decatur, we are a social bunch. My girlfriends and I often get together to share a cocktail or two. Like me, they are pretty adventurous with food and drink so they’re usually up for trying any new cocktail…
I love gin. It’s probably my favorite spirit to use in a cocktail. Tom Collins. Aviations. French 75's. Martinis. I love the perfume of botanicals that transforms a neutral distillation of malt, rye, wheat and/or corn. Juniper berries give gin…
Entertaining friends for the season premiere of "Mad Men" sent me looking for retro cocktails of the 1950's and 1960's to serve. Looking through cocktail guides from that time, one drink that kept popping up was The Moscow Mule. A snappy…
Sorry to be a party pooper, but it’s April 12th and that means that it’s the last weekend for you to work on your tax returns. So, to either get you in the right frame of mind for going through…
Winter is refusing to leave Atlanta on-schedule this year. With a bit of nip still in the air at night, it makes me want to linger a bit longer in the "brown liquor" season. The Tom Collins and Mojitos will…