May 2013
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Think Pink! Four Favorite Pink Cocktails - FOOD... →
Play with your food What are your favorite pink cocktails? Let me know on Food Riot!
May 7th
April 2013
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What's Your Poison?
I was reading one of my cocktail books a few weeks ago, where the author was talking about how alcohol is “literally a poison,” his exact words. This took me aback as I’d never heard alcohol was poisonous. I’d heard of alcohol poisoning, of course, but not that drinking in moderation might slowly kill you. It seems odd that something humans have been doing since literally...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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This is my new health plan →
“Champagne protects the brain from stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Disease.” I’ve also heard that it helps with depression.
Feb 12th
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What Defines a Cocktail?
For some reason (probably because I’m a dork), a few months ago I started worrying about what defined a cocktail: the proportions or the ingredients? If you read DIY Cocktails (which is a great book, by the way), they define cocktails by the proportions: two parts strong to one part aromatic (makes manhattans), three parts strong to two parts sweet and one part sour (makes margaritas), and...
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Book Review: SKINNYTINIS by Teresa Howes
Cocktails are great, but one of their downsides is how many calories you take in drinking them. As we all get older, we lose metabolism and start gaining weight. Quelle horreur. Can we enjoy our cocktails and still keep our girlish figures? Teresa Howes says yes. I say yes too, but probably not the same way and for not the same reasons. My answer would be, if you want to cut down on calories,...
Feb 9th
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Guest Post: How to Stock Your Skinny Bar
by Teresa Howes, author of SKINNYTINIS As the author of “SkinnyTinis — All the Fun for Half the Calories” I’ve spent A LOT of time in the liquor aisle. I’ve also spent a lot of time reading nutrition labels on various mixers, juices, sodas, syrups, nectars, teas, etc. I tested hundreds of recipes before my book went to print and continue to make new recipes...
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Feb 6th
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Drinking Hours
It’s well-known that writers generally like to have a drink or two or five, as the premise of this blog testifies. But what happens when one spends more time drinking than writing? Brendan Behan once said, “I’m a drinker with writing problems,” and when you’re your own boss and make your own hours, keeping business and pleasure separate can certainly be a problem. In...
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20 Photos of Authors Partying →
LOVE this. I actually collect pictures of my family members drunk (don’t tell them), so this is right in my wheel house. I think the two best are of Ernest Hemingway. Which are your favorites?
Feb 1st
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January 2013
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Jan 29th
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A Well-Stocked Bar
Whenever you pick up a cocktail recipe book, they usually have a list of things you should have stocked in your bar. If you’re anything like me, you probably skip this section, because they list every single alcohol known to human kind, and who’s really going to have that much stuff on hand? Not me. However, I do have what I consider a well stocked bar. This is based on what I like to...
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