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Alcademics Wins a Best of the Bay Award

Jul 27, 2011

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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…

Fortune Ice: Like A Fortune Cookie But With Ice

Nov 15, 2010

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Camper English

in fun, ice

In my latest set of fun experiments with ice, I created fortune ice. I'd been meaning to do this for a while, but two things made it actually happen. First, I bought a Tovolo King Cube Ice Cube Tray to make 2-inch cubes. Second, I realized I could use my Label Maker for the fortunes. I was thinking…

Another Ice Banner Attempt

May 27, 2010

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Camper English

in drinking_life, ice

You may think all I do is futz around with ice all day, and you'd be mostly correct (for proof, see the index of all of the ice experiments on Alcademics here). I attempted to make another site banner today using a clear piece of ice stamped with ALCADEMICS, but I think I like the orange…

The New Sweet

Mar 14, 2010

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Camper English

in camper_clips, sweeteners

The story on cocktail sweeteners I wrote for the April/May issue of Fine Cooking magazine is now online. You can read it here.

SF Cocktail Geography

Oct 30, 2009

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Camper English

in bars, camper_clips, cocktails, San Francisco

Jay Barmann from SFist.com attended my talk at SF Chefs.Food.Wine and kept the handout. Today he's posted my categorization of nearly every type of cocktail program in the city, which is good, because formatting html is a pain. The categories I made up so don't get too hung up on them- it's just how I…

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Alcademics Wins a Best of the Bay Award

Fortune Ice: Like A Fortune Cookie But With Ice

Another Ice Banner Attempt

The New Sweet

SF Cocktail Geography