“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern,” wrote Samuel Johnson over two centuries ago. A recent trip to Dr. Johnson’s home port suggests that if he were alive today, he’d be wearing an aloha shirt: London now has more good [...]
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If you perused these pages in 2008, you know all too well how we’ve been blathering about our favorite liquor — and the places we’ve gone, to say nothing of the lengths we’ve gone, to drink it. Here are a few more dispatches we never got around to filing last year (hey, they don’t call [...]
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Hard work and dedication will get you far, but no work and dissipation will get you farther. All the way to the Virgin Islands, in fact. That’s the life lesson we learned last month, when a phone call woke us from a sound sleep at the crack of noon. It was [...]
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We’ve been getting a lot of mail lately from Gothamites in search of the elusive Lemon Hart Demerara rum, an essential ingredient in many of the best vintage tropical drinks.
The Demerara dilemma has just been solved by New York City cocktailian Henrik Reid, who’s graciously consented to share his findings. He suggests that interested [...]