Author: Camper English
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HuffPo: How To Make Bar-Quality Ice, The Secret To A Better-Tasting Drink
Wow, another story about The Ice Book, this time from Huffington Post. I love how they made the pictures pop with the framing. Read it here.
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Using An Ice Shaver to Make Snow Ice and Flatten Clear Ice Slabs
Just for fun I bought an ice shaver (raspador de hielo) off of Amazon. I didn’t particularly need one, I just wanted to try it. It is used to make flavored shaved ices around the world. (Or Mint Juleps in my world.) To use it you slide it across a slab of ice and a…
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Epicurious: How Ice Obsessives Brought Clear Cubes to the Home Bar
I am featured in this nice Epicurious story about clear ice for the home bar. Read it here.
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Ice Feature in the San Jose Mercury News
"San Francisco's Camper English invented a home method for making clear ice that's now celebrated around the world" is the dek to this story in the San Jose Mercury News with the headline "‘The Ice Book’ traces a cocktail writer’s obsession with designing perfect, diamond-clear ice". The story is only available to subscribers unfortunately, but…
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Financial Times: It’s cocktail hour – so put a flower in it
In Alice Lascelles' latest cocktail column for the Financial Times, she covers the summertime trend of using flowers in cocktails and includes a photo from The Ice Book. Read the story here: It’s cocktail hour – so put a flower in it
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Camper English Named As One of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Bar World
Drinks International has released their 2023 Bar World 100 list, a list of the 100 most influential people in the bar world internationally. I am happy to say that I have once again made the list. The list has been released for the last four years and I have been on it three times, missing…
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Vanity Fair: The Glaciers May Be Melting—But Status Ice Is Trending
I was interviewed for this terrific story in Vanity Fair that brings together the modern manifestations of clear ice with its history as a luxury item that quickly transforms into an everyday necessity over and over again. I think the writer did a great job with it. Read it here.
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Doctors and Distillers is a Finalist for the 2023 Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Spirited Awards
I am very happy to announce that Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails is a Top 4 Finalist for the Tales 2023 Spirited Awards in the category of Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits! All the Top 4 nominees are great, as were many in…
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Review of The Ice Book on DrinkHacker
Rob Theakston of DrinkHacker wrote a very nice review of The Ice Book. He concludes: The hallmark of English’s books is his ability to make dense subjects approachable and accessible without careening too hard into academic or jargon-laden territories. This book is no exception. If you’re looking to take cocktail aesthetics and accents up [a]…
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A Mention of The Ice Book in Scientific American
My fellow ice book author Amy Brady wrote an article for Scientific American on the use of ice and its impacts in cocktail programs. I consider it a success that not only did she include The Ice Book in the story, I was able to get the expression "dirty dump" in Scientific American! Read: Climate-Friendly…