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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Cobbler

The sherry cobbler from Bellocq. Today's cocktail is a new one for me, via Emilia via Pableaux (see below). It's a sherry and fruit cocktail from the early 19th century called a Cobbler. A Google...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Derby

Derby cocktail. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. When I opened to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's wonderful and expanded food section, I was delighted to find a handful of bartenders offering cocktails. The...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Traverse City Zinger Returns

The TC Zinger. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I'm presumably in Stonington, Maine, cutting pig and rejoicing in the glories of the hog with Charcuterie pal and co-author Brian Polcyn, to benefit the...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Sawyer

The Sawyer. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Casting about for a cocktail high in bitters to make use of some of my own personal blend, and one with gin, because that's what the evening wanted, I happened...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Aged Eggnog

Cooked eggnog with meringue and nutmeg. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Plan ahead! Not long after I began this blog in 2006, I wrote about and made aged eggnog upon reading about it at CHOW. Two years...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Rob Roy

A Rob Roy. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman Owing to a misspent youth and for reasons I'd rather not get into, I have no taste whatever for blended Scotch whiskeys. Thus the dearth of Scotch-based...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Greyhound

I’m continuing the citrus binge as it’s a remedy for the winter blasts we’ve been getting. My favorite vodka mixer had long been grapefruit juice—because I’m a fan of bitter. Bitter is good. But then...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Key Lime Daiquiri Revisited

  On annual vacay visiting Mom and trying, trying to take it easy before Egg promotional travels begin in April, thus this repost and old photo by my beloved (who’s currently lounging poolside). I’m...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Rye Whiskey Smash

With Derby Day upon us, our annual excuse to start drinking bourbon early on a Saturday, I must of course give a nod to a great cocktail, the mint julep—bourbon, sweetened, flavored and garnished with...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Paloma Returns

Why do I continue to think work will ease up, give me a chance to catch my breath? I’m not complaining. I love all my work and feel lucky in too many ways to count. I don’t feel like Sisyphus pushing...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Pimm’s Cup

It’s 45 goddam degrees as I write this—morning but it’s only supposed to go up 6 more degrees by midday, and I am so tired of this cold gloomy weather I’ve decided to offer one of the great...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Berkshire Martinez Revisted

                                                          I’m in Chicago this weekend interviewing and hanging out with Grant Achatz. Grant, executive chef of Chicago’s Alinea, Next, and the innovative...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Sidecar

When we lived in Florida, Donna and I darkened many a thrift shop door. It was Palm Beach, and you never knew what you might uncover. We were also terribly romantic for the Old World, which to us could...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Metropolitan

Last week’s delicious Sidecar got me onto drinks featuring brandy. This, combined with my interest in how changing the spirit changes the name, brings me to today’s cocktail (photo by Donna Turner...

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Cocktail Hour: The Stinger (And Happy Father’s Day!)

Friday Cocktail Hour today is devoted to the memory of my dad, who hated to see guests leave and always asked if they’d stay for a nightcap, saying, “Can I make you a Stinger?” The Stinger, a cocktail...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Benjamin

I read about this impromptu cocktail in Molly Wizenberg’s new memoir, Delancey, about her and her husband’s opening of a restaurant in Seattle, one specializing in pizza, her Jersey-born husband’s...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Paloma

I’m in New York City this week and so must fall back on an old favorite cocktail and, more importantly, cocktail photograph. Gosh, did Donna nail this one. Regular readers may be tired of it, but new...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Gin & Tonic

Last night, Donna and I sat out on the front porch and had a gin and tonic. It was perfect. The air was perfect. It was quiet, no lawnmowers buzzing. The air had that lovely early evening haze. It was...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Applejack Sour

Earlier this summer, I met a friend out in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. (Could a novelist invent a more unlikely name for a town?) It’s semi-rural and on the edge of rural, a quaint town with an actual falls,...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Diamondback

One final cocktail using applejack, simply from a couple of web searches. This is my final post until after Labor Day, so I wanted a cocktail that packed a wallop. With three high-proof spirits, the...

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