Archive for the ‘Cocktail’ Category
Frontier Mixologist: A Classy Affair
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: February 10, 2012
It is strange to think that tuxedos, which are today the height of formality, were once an informal concession to comfort while dining. As Lord Grantham dons a tuxedo in last week’s episode of Downton Abbey, he cautiously notes that “All the chaps in London are wearing them only for the most informal evenings.” Mr. Carson [...]
The 10 Best Bodies in Brooklyn: 2011
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: December 29, 2011
Specifically: dead bodies. What, you were expecting something else? If you live in New York City and you have not yet visited Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, make it your New Year’s resolution to do so. A mixture of bucolic beauty, historical interest, and general anachronistic oddity, the grounds were first laid out in 1838 and [...]
Frontier Mixology: The Maximilian Affair
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: August 12, 2011
Of all the strange cul-de-sacs of European aristocracy, one of the most bizarre is Ferdinand Maximilian Josef, an Austrian prince whom Napoleon III installed as Emperor of Mexico in 1860s, and who was overthrown and killed three years later. Born into the House of Hapsburg, Maximilian was the son of Princess Sophie and Archduke Franz [...]
Frontier Mixology: The Vancouver Cocktail
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: June 8, 2011
It’s puck night in the Frontier Mixologist’s house. Some believe ice hockey first developed in the Netherlands, where it looked more like ice golf. In any event, the modern game was clearly developed by our friends north of the border. The relocation of a team to Winnipeg/Manitoba is, thus, fitting. As it’s their game, moreover, [...]
Booze in Bulk
Posted by: L.V. Lopez on: May 31, 2011
Granted, we are way past the fete-filled Christmas/New Year holiday season, but there are still plenty of party opportunities coming up. Whether you plan on celebrating Flag Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, or a random summer night, you won’t want to spend your evening mixing drinks for everyone. Instead, check out Serious Eats for tips [...]
Frontier Mixology: Bar Review & Cocktail Two-fer, Red Hook’s Fort Defiance
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: May 20, 2011
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Red Hook, I love it. The place has a faded sense of history, the polyglottal shouts of long-dead stevedores hanging in the air. It retains an atmosphere of waterfront decay à la Season 2 of The Wire that has been excised from other neighborhoods better served by public transport, even as much of Red Hook’s actual [...]
Frontier Mixology: ‘Ti Punch
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: April 29, 2011
What you know as rum isn’t really rum. The light rum from, for example, Bacardi with which you’ve been making mojitos is more akin to a vodka, one that happens to have started its life way-back-when as sugar cane. It is distilled from molasses, and is produced in such a way as to remove fermentation [...]
Frontier Mixology: The Last Word
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: April 15, 2011
Detroit has been through a lot lately. But in the 1920s, the Motor City was a different place with a bustling economy whose better days were still ahead of it. Indeed, the Roaring Twenties roared a little bit louder in Detroit. During Prohibition, the city’s proximity to Canada — Windsor, Ontario is just across the [...]
Frontier Mixology: Bar Review – Lani Kai
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: April 2, 2011
Julie Reiner is the force behind cocktail cathedrals Flatiron Lounge and Clover Club. Her new venture, Lani Kai, is all over the map — intentionally so, with one foot in Hawaii and the other in New York. With its self-described “modern tropical ambience” it is riding the tiki wave, although it takes pains not to [...]
Frontier Mixology: What We Talk About When We Talk About Whiskey Vol. 1, American Whiskey
Posted by: Roddy Rickhouse on: March 25, 2011
As a general matter, whiskey is liquor distilled from cereal grains that has been aged in wooden barrels. The word comes from usquebaugh, the Medieval Irish term for “water of life,” which was the catch-all term for all distillates at the time, e.g. aqua vitae. The Scots leave out the “e”, but modern day Irish [...]
