Month: February 2011

  • Cocktails and Italian Spirits

    Last week I spoke on a panel in New York for the Vino 2011 convention. The event mostly focuses on Italian wines, but this year they also offered a cocktail seminar. The seminar was called “Renaissance of the Cocktail in America: Top Spirit Professionals Assess the Role and Opportunities for Italian Spirit.” The panel was…

  • Absinthe Apparatus

    In my latest post for FineCooking.com, I discuss what all that absinthe-serving equipment is for. The fountain is not, of course, filled with absinthe, as in this music video. It is filled with plain old ice water. Read more about that here.