Kevin's Cocktails 

The importance of presentation, regarding a cocktail (and life in general), cannot be over-emphasized. After all, it’s your introduction to the new drink, the first time you lay eyes on it. And you would like this to be one of those “frisson” moments where your eyebrows raise, your eyes open wide, the corner of your lips move into a smile. “Wow! Look at this!” you say to yourself. And you regard the drink for a moment more before taking that first sip. Then, of course, the ou

“Our leaders suck, religion’s bunk Fuck it all, let’s get drunk!” —Postupack family saying anomie 1. social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards, morals, and values 2. personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals Life, as any thinking and feeling person knows, is difficult. So it comes as no surprise that yours truly, your humble narrator and mixologist, afflicted with the aforementioned anomie, occasionally draws so

“Happiness is a chimera.” —Schopenhauer When asked once by a journalist if he was happy, French General Charles de Gaulle responded, “What do you take me for, an idiot?” Au contraire, mon général, but who’s the idiot here? You with your constant worries? You who sees the world as nothing but a place rife with difficulties? With hindrances, impediments, obstacles, road blocks, dead ends, and occasionally, Nazis? With strife, violence, poverty, despair, and

There’s not a lot of information about this month’s RETRO COCKTAIL, the “Parisian”, also known as the “Parisian Cocktail”. What we do know is that the recipe dates back to 1929, to Harry’s New York Bar in Paris, the haunt of expatriates, movie stars, celebrities, royals, and the rich. Over the years, Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Jack Dempsey, Humphrey Bogart, and even the Duke of Windsor and Prince Aly Khan have sat down and ordered a drink at Harry’s. But in 1929, Paris an