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Shaken & Stirred: A Good Decade to Have a Drink

BY now, most of the reviews of the decade-that-just-was have been filed, and a consensus has emerged: If not “the worst decade ever,” as Time magazine put it, the ’00s were awful. Unless, that is, you spent the decade drinking. That sounds like a joke ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  16 Jan 2010

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Shaken & Stirred: 500-Year-Old Liqueur Hits the Cocktail Circuit

BACK in the 1980s, the makers of Bénédictine liqueur hatched an ad slogan for B&B, which is Bénédictine bottled with brandy: “Living well is the best revenge.” CELEBRATION A Benediction blends Bénédictine with orange bitters and Champagne. Nice point. ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  25 Dec 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: Once, It Required a Trip to Barbados

THE quest to exhume older and ever-more-obscure drinks, which has become a kind of sport for the mustachioed bartender set, may have reached its apotheosis. MAKE MINE ... a posset? Orlando Rivera whips one up. When casting about for a festive drink ...

From JONATHAN MILES, International Herald Tribune,  18 Dec 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: The Choices? Rum and Rum

ON a recent night at Roneria Caracas, a bar with its own name tucked inside a restaurant in Williamsburg named Caracas Brooklyn, a young woman with jet-black hair, a small barbell piercing her nose, and gashes in her earlobe from a former surfeit of ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  11 Dec 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: A Frozen Julep, Fresh Off the Vine

“THE mint julep, in its intended form, can be an intimidating beast,” said Tasha Garcia Gibson, an owner of Tipsy Parson, a restaurant in Chelsea that opened in October. For starters, there’s all that hullabaloo about how a julep should be served. To ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  4 Dec 2009

Shaken & Stirred: Barkeep, a Placebo on the Rocks, Please

ON Oct. 11, 1918, during the flu pandemic, a Public Health Service physician in Baltimore, alarmed by a trend he’d noted, sent an urgent note to Surgeon General Rupert Blue. “Sir,” he began, “a strong and growing belief exists in the minds of the ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: Out With the New, in With the Old

READING vintage bartending manuals which have gained considerable cachet in recent years, fueled by the renaissance in antiquated cocktails can be a winsome treat. Filled with sepia glimpses of the rich and deliciously fussy saloon culture that existed ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: Cheers Minus the Beers: Let’s Drink to Small Talk

THE bartender at the Summit Bar, a new cocktail lounge on Avenue C, did an interesting thing last week. He talked about the weather. At most bars, of course, this wouldn’t even bear noticing. But in the rarefied world of cocktail-centric bars the kind ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  16 Oct 2009

Shaken & Stirred: Tom Brady, Pretty in Pink?

NOTHING unusual about this scene: A harried waitress in a Manhattan sports bar deposits a pitcher at a table occupied by two men whose attentions are fixed upon a row of television screens above them. GO TEAM GO Roethlisberger is to beer as Brady is to ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2009

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Shaken & Stirred: A Liquid Keepsake

SOMETHING borrowed, something blue. And something shaken, something stirred. BRIDAL CHOICE A red currant and cocoa cocktail at Arrows Restaurant in Ogunquit, Me. The signature cocktail at wedding receptions a novelty 10 years ago, when brides besotted ...

From JONATHAN MILES, The New York Times,  18 Sep 2009

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