The cold weather snap may be gone, but the mood of the season and the lingering nip in the air have me craving warm winter cocktails. I’m not talking Aunt Sue’s eggnog, which I avoided like someone sneezing, or Irish whiskey either. With so many creative Oregon distilleries making flavored vodkas and gins such as […]
The martini is perhaps the most romanticized and bastardized alcoholic wallop ever invented. Among famous martini aficionados are Winston Churchill, FDR, Ernest Hemingway, Cary Grant and the fictional James Bond who preferred his “shaken, not stirred” and with vodka. H. L. Mencken once called the martini “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.” […]
I used to hate Brussels sprouts. I think it was my elementary school cafeteria that ruined them for me. I still remember the way the cafeteria cooked them. Boiled until they were colorless. And they smelled slightly sulphuric…like eating them might turn you into a Brussels sprout zombie. And so I stayed away. I turned […]
