Recap: Tales of the Cocktail
The coverage of Tales has been so intense, I’ve had trouble keeping up on it! Here is a list of all of the posts I’ve found. Please comment or send me an email if I’ve missed you, and I’ll you add to the list.
Tiki Photo Contest
Before I get into the recap, I wanted to remind everyone of the tiki photo contest. The final entry date is Monday, August 20th.
Tales of the Cocktail Posts
Kaiser Penguin
- Opening dinner, Starfish Cooler recipe, Zombie Punch recipe
- Lost Ingredients Live Blogged panel, Rum’s Punch panel, Proto Punch recipe, Fish House Punch recipe, Jasper’s Jamaican Planter’s Punch recipe, Don’s Beach Planter recipe, Cafe Adelaide breakfast, Cafe Pierre recipe
- Cafe Du Monde, Liquor Store, Procrastination Cocktail recipe, Dinner at the Delachaise
- Tasting with Eric Seed, Tiki Drinks from A to Zombie Live Blogging, Last Rites recipe, Mai Tai recipe, Nui Nui recipe, Dinner at Emeril’s Delmonico
- Tales of the Cocktail Wrap-Up
The Cocktail Chronicles
- Meeting everyone
- Cafe Adelaide and Joe Fee, Cocktail Family Tree panel, Rum’s Punch panel
- Lost Ingredients panel, Amer Picon tasting, Cocktail Hour
- Dinner at the Delachaise
- Enter the Distollogist, Perique and Red Hook Rye, impromptu tasting
- Cocktails and the Blogosphere panel, Tiki Drinks from A to Zombie panel, absinthe drip
The Art of the Drink
- packing rum, Absinthe panel
- Brennan’s breakfast, liquor store, movie night, bar tour, Cocktails and the Blogosphere panel
- More on Cocktails and the Blogosphere panel, history and methodology for The Art of the Drink
- The Delachaise Spirited dinner, Tiki Drinks from A to Zombie panel, rum tasting, Absinthe panel
Looka!
- The Cocktail’s Family Tree panel, Brandy Daisy recipe, Ramos Gin Fizz recipe, Drinks and Dishes Born in New Orleans panel, Lost Ingredients panel
- St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur, The Magic Hour recipe
- Blood and Sand recipe, Coconut Water and Ginger Caipiroska recipe, Spirited Dinner at Commander’s Palace
eGullet
Republic of Rum
The Liquid Muse
Alcademics
- Tales update with lots of panels
- Day 3 recap
- Cocktails and the Blogosphere panel, Reidel glasses
- Swag awards
Off The Presses
- Riding the carosel
- Napoleon House
- Opening dinner
- The Cocktail’s Family Tree panel, Rum’s Punch panel
- Old Absinthe House
- South American Spirits panel
- Aromatics panel
- Galatoire Restaurant panel
- No love for vodka
- Vermouth panel
- Antoine’s wine cellar
- The cities best sazerac?
- Quotes from Tales
- The case of the sweet sazerac
Favorite Moment
What was your favorite moment of Tales of the Cocktail this year? Answer whether your attended or not!
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Thanks for the recap Rick. Otherwise I would have missed The Liquid Muse’s post on how to “Conduct a home tasting panel.” That was a great piece of info.
But as to my favorite, it has to be your post on “Tiki Drinks from A to Zombie.” Well, I’m biased towards rum and Tiki, so…
Alas, that same post is also my least favorite as it almost made me cry about missing TotC. See you next year!
Also, if you’re interested, I posted a good dozen items about TOTC on my blog, Off the Presses. Saw you on the blogosphere panel. Nice job.
I don’t know if I have a favorite moment. It’s all sort of a blurry goodness. Though I found myself laughing out loud in the airport when I was trying to schedule where I’d be every second of the day and making tough choices like ice vs. sake.
Camper, I completely agree. I was more than distressed after having built up my excitement for the rye panel to find out it was the same time as Cocktails and the Blogosphere!
You guys are killing me. I really, really wanted to make it to Tales this year, so of course this was the one where I wasn’t even on the continent.
Meeting other cocktail bloggers was my favorite moment!!
btw – I have more Tales coverage… just haven’t gotten to it all… Sooo much to cover!