New Cocktail: “Tejuino”
Ok, so Tejuino, what is it? Take a look at these ingredients: Corn, lime, piloncillo, maybe a dash of salt or chili or both. The reason why it works so well is because you already have the goods for a delicious beverage, all you have to do is plug in the booze portion which isn’t
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New Cocktail: “Tejuino”
Ok, so Tejuino, what is it? Take a look at these ingredients: Corn, lime, piloncillo, maybe a dash of salt or chili or both. The reason why it works so well is because you already have the goods for a delicious beverage, all you have to do is plug in the booze portion which isn’t…
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Persimmon: The Undiscovered Country
Persimmons. People go wild about them. I’m a bit ambivalent. I never grew up with them around and so never took space in the nostalgia center of my hippocampus alongside Steven Spielberg, boxed cereals, Chef Boyardee’s beefaroni (still only $1.14 at Walmart), and G.I. Joe cartoons. My first experience with a persimmon was hey! in…
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Sandwiches Ranked
I’ve got just one thing on my brain this Black Friday, and that’s a post Thanksgiving sandwich. Sourdough bread, enough mayonnaise to choke a Frenchman, fresh black pepper, then the stuffing, turkey, a thin layer of gravy, and the coup de grace, cranberry sauce from the can. Just for the record, I don’t put any…
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What Not to Order at a Bar…
This could be a book in and of itself, but since I have a couple of grievances to air and Festivus approaches, I figure it’s as good a time as any to let some steam off. Restaurant bartending, as described long ago in the PDT cocktail book, is much the same as being a short…
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Cormac McCarthy, the Muse, More Notes on the Espressotini
Big news in the literary world this week. The late, great Cormac Mccarthy, one of my favorite writers of all time, had a teenage muse when he was in his early forties. Yeesh. Creepy. The woman has now come out of the woodwork to explain herself and him and swears she was never taken advantage…
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Bar Hack: What to do with Five Pounds of Habaneros
I love the burn. The singe. The tingling scalp, the mopping of sweat from the brow. The stinging lips, battling my own constitution, summoning up that last ounce of gumption to put down another bite and wondering if I could possibly have another or if I should give up, call it quits, drink some milk,…
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New Cocktail: Into the Yuzuverse
Yuzu season is fleeting. It comes and goes. I guess they all do…Just like us…Ok, ok, let’s not start off on a bad foot here with the existential crisis so early on a fall behind morning…Back to yuzu…The little guys are annoying and wonderful. So many seeds! So little juice! So much unique flavor but…
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New Cocktail: Joppa Road
It’s officially fall and soon the dark, despondant miasma of daylight savings will descend upon us. Years ago we collectively voted against it, and yet, here it comes again. In this pre-apocalyptic wasteland/utopia we call Los Angeles things are a little different from the rest of the country, at least in terms of fruits and…
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Movie Review: Predator
Predator is now 37 years old and the biggest shame of all is that entire generations will never experience it’s impact and care not to. Case in point: A new intern from the kitchen, name: Dylan. Yes, I was the asshole and no, the poor bastard didn’t see it coming. “Dylan?” “Yeah,” the kid replied.…
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Post Rom Com Review: Nobody Wants This
Oh, the vitriol! Heres what my wife had to say after reading my review of Nobody Wants This: “You tore down my show asshole! Way too negative! Way too negative! You really don’t get it, do you? The reason why it’s become so popular is because the characters are over forty. You should appreciate that,…
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Rom Com Review: Nobody Wants This
Truth be told, when I hear the term “Rom Com” my skin crawls, I roll my eyes, and my sarcasm/cynicism meter jacks past the red line into another zone I would gladly call imagining the worst possible human misery. Yes, my own personal hell would be filled with many, many annoying people (listening to the…
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Revisiting the Irish Car Bomb
Yes, not the most politically sensitive name for a cocktail you could come up with…Unbeknownst to me until now, the Irish Car Bomb was recently redubbed The Irish Slammer which of course brings up all kinds of other images I should leave away from this page…A jail that serves Guinness stout alongside shit on a…
The Aging Bartender 