Category: camper_clips
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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…
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My Favorite (Nerdiest) Blog Posts About Cognac
In which I gather together my best writing on cognac.
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Clear Ice in Cook’s Illustrated
A quick mention of my clear ice method in Cook’s Illustrated and an older Milk Punch story is online and in video form.