A momentous thanks to Chef Chris DeBarr, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and his lovely wife, and Wayne Curtis for making a magical evening for all of us. I greatly enjoyed the spirited dinner at the Delachaise last year, but this blew it out of the water. For your salivating pleasure, here is the full menu (taken […]
Archive for July 18th, 2008
TotC – Friday – Live Blogging Sensory Perception and Mixology
4:27pm – The panelists for this highly anticipated session are Darcy O’Neil, Robert Hess, Jamie Boudreau, Audrey Saunders, and Eben Freeman. In front of us is a mysterious and small manila envelope. If I had to wager, I’d say it contains taste strips. These strips may, indeed, make some super-tasters in the room cry. We […]
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TotC – Friday – Live Blogging Rum, Ron, and Rhum
12:29pm – Our panelists today are Wayne Curtis, Angus Winchester, Ben Jones (Rum Clement) and Chesterfield Browne (Mount Gay). This is going to be an exciting one. 12:42pm – Here are the cocktails for the session: Winchester Swizzle 1 1/2oz Bacardi 8 1/2oz Rock Candy Syrup 1/4oz falernum 1oz lime juice Serve over crushed ice. […]
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TotC – Friday – Jerry’s Kids – Live Blogging
10:46am – Ted Haigh begins by going into the origins of the cocktail. Most likely a warm whiskey cocktail, with bitters playing a very important role. Newspapers took the role of publishing recipes, but it took 60 years before cocktails were popular enough to publish in Jerry Thomas’s bar guide. 10:51am – Germans were the […]
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