August 2010
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Love the Japanese Style →
I love watching this young bartender work. So perfect, so professional. I wish I could take him home.
July 2010
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Enough, please
Hoodwinked again. Fool you once, shame on them. Fool you twice, shame on you. Well I think we must be up for for the idiot award with the number of times the British Columbia Liberal Government has fooled us. Oh baby, I’m indeed hanging my head in shame.
Seems we’ve just learned that the Liberals created revenue targets that we had no chance of meeting. It would be similar to...
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My Favourite Architects →
Diller & Scofidio have got to be the most interesting architects of the day. They’ve recently created the High Line in New York but I first came across them earlier in this century when I went to the Brasserie in the Seagram Building. I couldn’t have been more enthused by their sense of play. Other delights have been the vice & virtue glasses (one even with hypodermic), the...
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A Most Expensive Cocktail →
http://spiritsnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/07/still-pricey-after-all-these-years.html I’ve been complaining about cocktail prices of late but after reading this I’ll be quiet. It would be interesting to know who the two people are and why they wouldn’t find something more honorable to do with the money (like giving it to a charity).
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“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.”...”
– Benjamin Franklin (but read on Wally’s Wine Twitter feed)
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How To Open A Cocktail Club →
Doing battle for cocktails in Canada. I’ll be there if they let me through the door.
June 2010
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American Drink →
Love their motto: Be responsible. Drink for fun.
““The glances over cocktails
That seem to be so sweet
Don’t seem...”
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Just enjoyed this TED Talk about how the little... →
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An Educated Sophisticate
Here I am wishing I was having a Plymouth Gin Martini in a beautiful Orrefors crystal glass while listening to Nina Simone.
I’m pining for the Martini because I’ve watched An Education again. I first saw this film last September at the Toronto Film Festival. It was on my must see list because it’s directed by Lone Scherfig who set me on my path to love all things Danish – oh...
TED Talks →
Just the best stimulation a thinking girl could ask for.
“Vodka can fill in for gin from time to time and might even be given certain...”
– Earl Wilson, New York Times
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WatchThe first Art of the Cocktail video of the season featuring Shawn Soole of Clive’s Classic Lounge making a Vieux Carré.