Category: camper_clips
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New Fernets in the San Francisco Chronicle
In the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, December 18th, I have a story on the category of fernet. Leopold Brothers has a modern formulation of fernet that should be hitting story shelves this Wednesday afternoon, and Tempus Fugit Spirits has a vintage recreation of fernet coming in the new year. (Photo by John Storey) From…
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Japanese Bartending Story
I have a short piece in the new issue of Caviar Affair magazine describing the influence of Japanese bartending on the rest of the world. The magazine also has lots of pricey booze recomendations, stories about port and cognac, and a few bartenders you may know. The digital version of the magazine is at this…
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Bartenders Looking Very GQ
Hey, I'm in GQ magazine in the December issue. Surprisingly not as their Man of the Year, but in the Bombay Sapphire advertorial looking somewhat constipated. The four-page spread is about the Most Inspired Bartender contest 2011, for which I was one of the judges. We all carved our names into that ice block…
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Camper’s Cocktails in Every Day with Rachael Ray
I have a two-page spread in the November 2011 issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine. It has a few trends – stuff like fresh ginger and sherry/port in place of vermouth along with some ice cube tricks (recognize that rainbow ice?). Also it has four recipes I developed- a spirit-interchangeble mint buck, a…
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Alcademics Wins a Best of the Bay Award
This is turning into a pretty good month. Alcademics was just given a Best of the Bay Award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. BEST LIQUOR LOWDOWN Why is it that we like to read about food and drink so much on the Web? In no other Internet area, except maybe porn, is the…
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Camper English Wins Best Cocktail Author at Tales
I'll post more when I can get to a computer (I lost my power cord) so long story short: Hooray for Me! I win the best non-book cocktail author award last night at Tales of the Cocktail. That is awesome.
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Tequila is the New Vodka; Tequila is the New Scotch in LA Times Magazine
I've brought up one side of this topic before here on Alcademics, but now both sides are in a magazine. In today's Los Angeles Times Magazine I have a story on tequila, looking at how brands are being produced and marketed – some like vodka; others like scotch. As our preference for 100 percent agave tequila…
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Camper English: Penthouse Model
In the June issue of Penthouse, I have a travel story about my trip with Dos Equis to Playa Del Carmen. You can read the original posts here on Alcademics in part one, part two, and part three. I've written for Penthouse previously, but this is the first time I've appeared in its pages…