Category: camper_clips
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The Life and Death of Kold-Draft
Over at Punch, Drew Lazor wrote a story about the Kold-Draft ice machine. He covers the role the big clear ice cube maker played in the cocktail renaissance (I didn’t realize it was around so long), and how many bars are abandoning the machine today due to its problematic performance record.
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Moving on from the World’s 50 Best Bars
A goodbye to my role as polling coordinator for the World’s 50 Best Bars.
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Audience Feedback on Camper’s Tales of the Cocktail Seminar
Great feedback on a seminar I gave this year at Tales of the Cocktail.
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A Little Overkill at my Tales of the Cocktail Seminar on Bitter Flavors
The slightly ridiculous amount of tasting samples I prepared for a talk at Tales of the Cocktail.
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Once Always Almond, Orgeat Has Gone Nutty!
In my new story for SevenFifty Daily, I wrote about how orgeat, the French almond syrup famously in the Mai Tai, is now being made with a range of nuts, seeds, and other ingredients. The story cites examples from around the country and we come up with a new working definition for orgeat. Check it…
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Black Cocktail Alternatives to Activated Charcoal
While one could add a medication-interaction warning about activated charcoal, like an allergen label on a drink menu, there are other ways to color a drink black that don’t require a scary-sounding note. SevenFifty Daily asked bartenders around the country for cocktail-darkening alternatives and learned that black sesame seeds, cuttlefish ink, and black food coloring…