Month: December 2009
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Fun with Sugarcane
I bought a stalk of sugarcane at the farmer’s market and tried to extract the juice from it at home. It’s not easy!
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Clear Ice Blocks at Home in an Igloo Cooler
In my latest set of experiments on making clear ice in the home freezer, I try using a hard-sided Igloo ice cooler- with great success! Read on.
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New History on the Pisco Sour
Pisco historian Guillermo Toro-Lira discovers new truths and falsehoods about the history of the Pisco Sour.
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Montego Bay, By Way of Heaven’s Dog
I can't stop thinking about the delicious drink I had during Tiki Week at Heaven's Dog. So I asked bar/general manger Erik Adkins for the recipe and he was nice enough to share. "The Montego Bay is listed in Beachbum Berry's 'Intoxica'. He says that it is a Don the Beachcomber Drink from the Hotel…
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Carving Big (and clear) Ice Cubes
After much experimentation I have found one method to make big clear chunks of ice. That method is to put water in a cooler in the freezer, then chop off the top clear layer. Now the trick was to get this into useful sized cubes for glasses. *Update 2021: A better post on cutting up…