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  • I’m On A Boat (Magazine)

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    Should you happen to be riding along with Seabourn Cruises sometime soon, you may find a story from me in your onboard magazine.  I wrote a story about pastis, how is originated wtih absinthe, and what it's like today.  I don't think the story will ever go online, so you'll just have to book a…

  • Find Me in the Penthouse

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    Penthouse magazine, that is. I have a story in the April issue about my trip to Warsaw and the ancient forest with ZU vodka, the bison grass vodka known throughout the world as Zubrowka.  But I'm also in Penthouse as a model, again!       Of course you'll recognize my hand, sexily caressing that…

  • Liquid Smoke in the LA Times Magazine

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    I have a story about smoke cocktails in this Sunday's LA Times Magazine. Go read it! PHOTO: BARTHOLOMEW COOKE Now, you're saying, "Didn't I already read that?" Nope, that would be Robert Simonson's excellent story in the New York Times, which I learned about after mine had already been submitted. We cover pretty much the…

  • 2011: My Year in Cocktail Writing

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    Looking over the year (read: sending invoices) for 2011, it turns out that I managed to get a lot of work done in between all the trips. This year I contributed to: FineCooking.com as the weekly cocktail blogger Mixology Magazine in Germany The LA Times Magazine Caviar Affair Magazine SilverKris (Singapore Airlines) Penthouse Magazine The…

  • Instant Infusions in Tasting Panel Magazine

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    I have a short piece in Tasting Panel Magazine about the instant infusion method – using a whipped cream charger filled with nitrous oxide to infuse flavors in spirits – and Purity Vodka's promotion of the technique.  The story is at this link, which opens a digital magazine reader.  By the way, the original Dave…

  • Trends in Craft Beer in SilverKris Magazine

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    My editor at SilverKris, the inflight magazine for Singapore Airlines, emailed me something like, "I hear craft beer is becoming popular. Can you do a story on that?" "Sure," I said, knowing that boiling down everything going on with craft beer into even a feature-length story was going to be incredibly difficult.  The story kind…

  • New Fernets in the San Francisco Chronicle

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    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…

  • Japanese Bartending Story

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    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…

  • Bartenders Looking Very GQ

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    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…

  • Camper’s Cocktails in Every Day with Rachael Ray

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    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…