In the New York Times, Robert Simonson writes about my quest for clear ice and The Ice Book! It's a great article.
Order The Ice Book here.
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More Death Star Ice Spheres
A few years back I showed how you can make the Death Star ice mold turn out clear. There are more tips and detailed information in The Ice Book, and you should probably purchase a copy!
Below are some more pics from a 2023 round of making more Death Star spheres for some friends.
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Local Trendsetter Releases Stylish Ice Book
The Nob Hill Gazette is a neighborhood newspaper in San Francisco – the posh neighborhood, that is.
Writer David Nash penned a little preview of The Ice Book for the paper, which you can read here.
It features another of Allison Webber's fantastic photos from the book.
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Dots are So Hot Right Now
I hadn’t noticed just how many different ways bartenders were incorporating the same basic shape until I saw them all together on the menu at the bistro Causwells in San Francisco. “This whole menu I just gravitated to circles,” says Elmer Mejicanos, beverage director and managing partner. “I should have called it the circle menu.”
I wrote about dots and spots in cocktails for Vinepair. Read it here!
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Olives and Ice are a Weird New Pairing
Jake Emen ruminated on the newish phenomenon of people combining ice and olives. The story includes references to Disco Cubes Dirty Martini ice, garnish at Hanky Panky in Mexico City, and the cover of The Ice Book by me.
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Ice Books in the Wall Street Journal
This Wall Street Journal article features both The Ice Book by me, and Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks–a Cool History of a Hot Commodity by Amy Brady.
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How to Make the Stunning Artisanal Ice All Over Social Media
Writer Lisa Futterman interviewed me for this article on how to make fancy ice cubes for Wine Enthusiast.
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Two More Stories on the Specialty Ice Trend
After the New York Times quoted me for this story:
The Height of Domestic Luxury? Designer Ice.
A few other publications have picked up the beat. The Specialty Food Association (they put on the Fancy Food Show) published this piece Specialty Ice is Trending.
And Deseret News published an explainer called Here’s everything you need to know about the designer ice trend you see on TikTok.
I probably wouldn't have noticed but both these stories quoted me and my Google news alert picked it up.
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The Tiny Ice TikTok Trend
Punch editor-in-chief Talia Baiocchi writes about another ice trend on TikTok, that of teeny tiny ice cubes.
It's a fun story and she asked me to share my thoughts.
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