We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. Rombauer, and Ethan Becker. Hardly a meal goes through our kitchen that isn’t shaped in some part by the recipes and general information in its pages. A recent discovery was Joy’s description and defense of cocktail parties.
So, when a book [...]

Posted October 7, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, american invention, cocktail, cocktail parties, cocktail party, cocktails, drink, entertaining, joy of cooking, party, toast. 2 Comments.

Ian Chadwick’s In Search of the Blue Agave begins:
“Tequila is Mexico,” said Carmelita Roman, widow of the late tequila producer Jesus Lopez Roman in an interview after her husband’s murder. “It’s the only product that identifies us as a culture.”
No other drink is surrounded by as many stories, myths, legends and lore as tequila and [...]

Posted May 5, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Kitchen, Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: agave, blue agave, celebration, cinco de mayo, drink, history, holiday, mexican victory, mexico, mezcal, tequila, toast. One Comment.