Category: camper_clips
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Five Summer 2022 Drink Books Reviewed
I reviewed 5 books for Alcohol Professor. The reviews are here. I've also pasted the post below, which originally appeared on AlcoholProfessor.com. The books are (links are to Amazon) The Bartender's Cure The Little Book of Whiskey Cocktails Cocktails, A Still Life Cocktails of Asia Black Mixcellence Boozy Book Reviews: Late Summer 2022New…
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An Interview with Me in Imbibe Magazine
In which I talk about laser beams and syphilis. Read it here.
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Alton Brown Recommends Doctors and Distillers
Sharing this write-up about my book from Alton Brown: "Alton Brown has given us season after season of food television goodness with multiple shows, including the iconic Good Eats and most recently Good Eats: Reloaded and Good Eats: The Return. He’s also written his fourth Good Eatscookbook, Good Eats: The Final Years, a compilation of…
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Review of Doctors and Distillers in Publishers Weekly
My book Doctors and Distillers got a nice review in Publishers Weekly! Cocktail and beverage writer English makes a spirited debut with this vibrant cultural history of alcohol’s transition from medicine to social lubricant. Gin and tonic, a popular concoction consumed by British soldiers in the 1800s to stave off disease and illness, for instance,…
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Books That Cite Camper English’s Work
The other month I came across a citation of something I wrote in a book that I’d not previously known about. This lead me to do a Google Books search to see if there were any more, and there were – a lot! So this post is more or less an item for my resume.…
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English at Eater: Earthy Ube Purple Pina Coladas
I wrote a story for Eater San Francisco on a trend of purple drinks with coconut cream and usually ube as a flavoring. Photos by @vivo.visuals, Melissa de Mata, @equal_parts_cocktail, Allison Webber You should probably go read it.
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A Clear Ice Story at VinePair
VinePair writer Tim McKirdy wrote a story on How to Create Perfectly Clear Ice, so naturally he included Directional Freezing, and the method I created way back in 2009 using a picnic cooler. This is just a quick post to link to it so that I don't forget. Check it out here.
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Clear Ice with Quotes from Me in Men’s Journal
Men's Journal did a story on directional freezing highlighting my cooler method of 11 years ago. Spoiler: It still works. Check it out here.
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Ice in the Wall Street Journal
I was interviewed for a story on ice that appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week. Here's the story link if you have subscriber access. The intro part that mentions me is below.
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The Pre-eminent Cocktail Ice Scholar
In this story in The Guardian, I'm mentioned as "perhaps the pre-eminent cocktail ice scholar," in the section about ice snobs. I'll take it. The story isn't about me at all, but it's a long read (no really, it's a very long read) about the packaged ice industry through the lens of one major…