First day back to ye old mixology lab, and my project today is the Octopus, inspired by Facebook wall post by my friend Corey. I got a bunch of Octopus variations here… perhaps enough for an Octopus Menagerie? … Starting with: the original Octopus. Jeff Berry says that it was a recipe of Al Hong, …
Recently I have been on somewhat of a brandy kick, perhaps because of all the Alfred Hitchcock movies we’ve been watching in Ran Blake‘s Film Noir class at NEC. (Hitchcock often has his characters drink brandy in his films… see The Rope, Strangers on a Train, and others). The Sidecar and the Daisy I first …
I came up with this recipe yesterday while hanging out with one of my best friends, Tim Mayer. Tim introduced me a while back to Convento, a brand of artesian grogue from Cape Verde. (Tim is a well-known recording artist in Cape Verde. In addition to knowing a lot about Cape Verdean music, he is …