In my previous post I was lamenting the fact that I had returned from a trip and while I wanted to try a new cocktail, I was out of fresh fruit which limited my choices.
The next morning I was eating breakfast, which for me usually consists of fruit. As I was finishing off a container of pineapple that I had sliced, Andrea pointed and said, “hey, didn’t you need pineapple juice for your cocktail?”
Continue readingI had just come back from a trip to Germany, and even though my body was supposed to be at four in the morning, I found myself a little too wired to sleep. I figured a nice cocktail would be just the thing, but since I’d been gone for a week I had no fresh fruit in the refrigerator. Going through all of the recipes in the book I kept getting stymied due to a lack of lime, lemon, orange or even grapefruit juice.
Continue readingOf the 87 or so recipes in the book, I’ve seen a handful of them in the wild. This is one of them.
According to the text, the cocktail was the signature drink of Erskine Gwynne who was an “expatriate writer, socialite and nephew of railroad tycoon Alfred Vanderbilt”. Gwynne edited a magazine called The Paris Boulevardier, hence the name.
- 1.5 ounce bourbon
- 1 ounce Campari
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
Stir long and well with ice in a mixing glass and then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.
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I almost wanted to call this drink “The Amazon” since I had to order most of the ingredients on-line.
- 1 ounce bourbon
- 1 ounce Calvados
- 1 ounce passion fruit juice or nectar
- 1 dash real pomegranate grenadine
- 1 dash orange flower water
Shake in an iced cocktail shaker and strain into a glass. Garnish with a carnation boutonnière
The author found this recipe in a book called the Café Royal Cocktail Book (1937). Times were different 70 years ago, and I hope that it is okay that I left off the boutonnière garnish.
Continue readingIt may seem funny that my second cocktail post doesn’t come from the book that inspired the website, but my love of cocktails was inspired by a number of people as well, including my friends Demetri and Cat in Chicago.
Whenever I would visit we would end up at the bar at the Florentine, which is located in the JW Marriott hotel. On one visit I was introduced to “Life is Beautiful” and not only is it my go-to cocktail when I’m there, it is my go-to at home as well.
Continue readingI knew that there was something to my desire to do this site when I was trying to decide on the first cocktail to feature. I didn’t want to do them alphabetically, so I just opened a page at random. The first recipe I saw was for “The Corpse Reviver #2”. It just so happens that this was the first cocktail the author tried.
It just so happens I had all the ingredients.
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