On Spritzes, or Something Like Them
Drinking one used to mean you were a middle-aged suburban woman seeking to dilute your supermarket white wine. Now, it’s something entirely different as our current bar culture has brought forth and embraced the Italian way of drinking, and thankfully so.
The Dirty Martini
Created in 1901 by John O’Connor at the Waldorf Astoria, the very first Dirty Martini got its flavor from muddling olives into a Martini…
On Building Out Your Home Bar
When quarantine started, I had but eight bottles of liquor (plus one sad bottle of Angostura bitters, slowly gathering dust) lined up neatly on a lacquer tray in my kitchen. But, as it turns out, a person who is enthusiastic about cocktails cannot live on vodka sodas alone, particularly during a time when most of my favorite bars were closed for the foreseeable future.
Keep Up With the Jones!
