March 26, 2012

for stardust and rust, excerpted from

 The Drink: Your Winter into Spring transitional cocktail

March can be an odd month for drinking.  Unless you have this.

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By Dappered Drinks Correspondent and Official Bartender Michael Bowers



...But what to drink as the weather turns again to tolerable?  50 degrees and drizzling isn’t weather for a dry gin martini, nor does it require the same fortifications as 10 degrees and snowing.  During the months on either side of winter, I often find myself still drinking cocktails based on brown, brooding spirits, but mixed with lighter accompaniments.  My favorite example is the Brooklyn...  Light, herbal and a little bit floral, it’s the ideal cocktail for March—equal parts lion and lamb.
Brooklyn
  • 2 oz.  Rye Whiskey (preferably 100 proof)
  • 1 oz.  Dry vermouth
  • .25 oz  Luxardo Maraschino
  • .25 oz  Amer Picon (unless you live in France, you’ll have to sub Torani Amer or make your own)
Stir over ice for 45 seconds.  Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish a real preserved cherry.  As I’ve noted before, good, fresh vermouth is essential.

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i don't know.  just for fun.  yesterday was in the high 70's, today we have a freeze warning.  at least i'd like some lion and lamb in my pretty glass, please.  please?

March 20, 2012

anyway & though

anyway.

though


i speak of our wine

and you speak of the characteristics of the soil and the weather that year, the variety of grapes,  the mood of the pickers and the stainless steel or the oak, the cellaring conditions and the cork, the number of bottles produced in this lot, the reputation of the vintner and the price to personal taste ratio, and how long this particular bottle had to breathe upon our counter and the temperature at pouring and the shape of the glass and the food with which it was served and the relationship between the people drinking 

and i speak of our love.

you speak of biological drive, the urge to one another and the evolutionary imperative for progeny, and of cultures which name this magnetism emotionally, weakly, and the blur between attraction and affection and the relevance thereof, and of complex variations within human experience, of liking and fondness, and associations--positive and negative, some of which do not conflict much with the commonly understood notion of "love", and of risk:  the repercussion of the intended and unintended connotations of this word in use.  


anyway.  and

though.

March 19, 2012

to be. march 19, 2012

brush me breeze and hyacinth,
scent me spring and rye,
cherry blossom tangerine,
seersucker glide.  paint me.

brush me buds and genuflect,
scent me charmed goodbye,
candyapple vinyl spin,
copper cabled wire.  paint me.

brush me boozy bossa nova
paint me here on fire.  brush me.

blue electric.  and gardens.