FCB: Gourmet 50’s Cocktails – Frangipani

Not sure if it is related to their upcoming demise, but Gourmet magazine online is doing a feature where they publish their 20 favorite cocktails of each decade, starting from the ’40s. They are upto the 90s now.
Simply gazing at the wonderful photos are probably worth the time by itself, but it is wonderful [...]

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Beating the funk…

What a weirdly depressing Friday morning!
I should be thinking end of the week, cocktails/ good beer, good food etc. But here I am on a perfectly sunny San Diego day – one of those mornings that make this city such a fabulous place to live – deep in an inexplicable funk. Gah…
A good experimental result [...]

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FCB: Givin’ Martini a Bad Name…

A sincere request to lovers of alcohol everywhere…to stop appending the name ‘Martini’ at the end of any random fruity, colorful liquor concoction.
Even otherwise erudite bloggers are at it, tweeting about something called Mango Martini ! As far as I can see, it is just a variation of the SATC-popularized cocktail Cosmopolitan, with mango juice [...]

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Friday Cocktail Blogging: The Manhattan

I blogged about the Manhattan before, but lately I have developed a renewed affection for this drink.  (Also, in that earlier blog, the drink was more of an after-thought – wanted to expand on it a bit).
This renewal of affection came about  possibly during the trip to Boston earlier this year, when fellow connoisseur BH [...]

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FCB: A non-religous Easter and a Scotch-based drink

In which Friday Cocktail Blogging makes a (hopefully) stealthy return (just like a much too drunk husband enters the bedroom after a nite out with the blokes ? [1] ) Written while copiously consuming the drink mentioned below and the hi-fi belting out classic Ghazals such as Main Nashe Mein Hoon, Hungama Kyon Hai (Thodisi [...]

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FCB: somewhat resembling a post…

Over the past few weeks, cocktail blogging has been severely neglected. Ironically, the excuse is increased social drinking. Keeping up with the Aussies is tough, they do imbibe a lot (bars look pretty full even on weekdays and I did see someone drinking a beer at 7.30am !). Additionally, it does not help when beside [...]

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FCB: Random musings and a Daiquiri

Some random, irrelevant thoughts on drinking socially and such. Feel free to skip to the drink recipe at the bottom.

I enjoy consuming alcohol, but have realized that satisfaction often comes more from the social interactions inherent with drinking rather than the spirits themselves. To be sure, some alcohol such as aged single-malt scotch or [...]

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FCB: The cocktails and I – Random Eight.

In spite of the CTBT proclamation, Patrix tagged me with the random facts meme. Now, it is truly not quite possible to do this tag accurately since for the eight facts to be random, I should ideally make a list of all facts about me, number them and then use a random number generator to [...]

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Friday Cocktail Blogging: The Importance of Ice and Water

Haven’t had time to try anything especially new, hence just a couple of links for this weekend.

There are numerous cocktail related blogs and web-sites out there, but most simply rehash recipes and are rarely useful or enjoyable to read. However, The Art of Drink by Darcy O’Neil is a welcome exception. Darcy’s a chemist [...]

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Friday Cocktail Blogging: Back with a Bundy

I have complained earlier about the high cost of liquor in Australia, which is party due to high duties. But, if as the wise man said, death and taxes are the two certainties of life, then surely alcohol is its lubricant. Therefore undaunted, we shall continue with our quest of featuring refreshing alcohols for your [...]

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Bye Bye, Love.

With a heavy heart, I will be bidding farewell today to a dear love. It’s been just over two years, but we had become so close – trusting and understanding each other, yet not demanding too much.

But keys to the Atlantic Blue Pearl, 250l-ft (at 3600rpm) torque producing, turbo-charged pure driving thrill will be handed [...]

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Friday Cocktail Blogging: The Martini Debate

“I like to have a martini
Two at the very most –
After three I’m under the table,
After four, I’m under my host.”
– Dorothy Parker

Till a couple of years ago, when I was a poor graduate student, alcohol (the drinkable variety) was just alcohol – didn’t really matter what variety it came in: cheap, or preferably free [...]

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