You’ll want to put this on and in just about everything.
Get mellow.
Maybe the best news out of yesterday is that my standing wish to drink a Blood & Sand is going to be fulfilled by my mixologist philosopher friend, who knows and deeply approves of it.
Then we ate caviar and crème fraîche on potato chips, because this party was exactly the sort of high/low-brow medley that everything should be.
Give Dad the gift of a new favorite drink.
Read more: 12 Cocktails for Father’s Day on Food52.
Me: Ohh I think I’ve found my new drink. It’s called Blood & Sand.
Assistant Editor: [alarmed, fond] You are a weird chick.
A drink to carry you into the dog days of summer…
Read More: How to Make Nettle and Sorghum Syrup for a Southern Spell on Food52
What if I lived in an unusual house way off in the woods, and served my guests drinks made with nettle and sorghum syrup. And everyone had at least entertained the thought that I might be a witch, and even though half weren’t thinking of the good kind, they all still came by on afternoons.
Although, counter-point, last summer a friend brought me some nettle tea and I looked at him and said, “People need to stop eating nettles just because they can.”
Vintage cocktail recipes in rhyme? Yes, please! This unique unpublished book by Charles Green Shaw is only one of many rare printed materials that will be featured in our upcoming Journal.
Pages 42 and 43 from: Charles Green Shaw’s Rhymed recipes, 193-?. Charles Green Shaw papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
TARRA.
This is the only cocktail book I need
Someone turn that “unpublished” the right way round