Month: July 2009

The Black Dog at Tales of the Cocktail

My good friends over at Embury Cocktails were kind enough to stop by the Boca Loca luncheon at Tales of the Cocktail this year, and captured me on film while Jason Rowan grilled me after a late night and an early morning of prepping for the lunch.    

Tales of the Cocktail is Almost Here

(Gosh, they look happy.) Anyway – it’s July, which means that it’s that time of year, to take a week-long reprieve from the steamy swelter of Oregon and head once again to the cool lazy breezes of New Orleans. Tales of the Cocktail is a week of cocktail seminars, workshops, classes, competitions, food, fun, friends, | Read More

Summer Classics with a Twist

by Wayne Curtis in Men's Journal

One theory about the origin of the word “cocktail” says it was swiped from 18th-century slang for a non-thoroughbred horse, whose docked tail signified mixed heritage. A drink so adulterated with something other than pure spirits – like bitters or sugar – adopted the nickname by analogy. In the two centuries since Americans discovered a | Read More