Just back from vaca in Greece (but as many of you know, my vacations always include a little bidness…we did do some wine stuff…more on that in later posts). I have been speaking with David Rosengarten, noted food writer and host of the TV show “Taste”, and as we were coordinating schedules at breakfast in [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Infusion Cocktails!
July 16th, 2009 
admin As promised, I’ve got some wonderful new cocktail recipes to share with you—all of them part of entries in the OVAL vodka infusion contest. Read up on what the contest was all about in my last post. Just one quick note—to give credit where credit is due, all the drink photos put up here were [...]
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No Comments »OVAL Vodka’s Homemade Infusion Contest
July 14th, 2009 admin You might have seen my mention about OVAL vodka’s infusion contest in an earlier post and wondered what the heck I was talking about. I got some ‘splainin’ to do. Earlier this summer, OVAL vodka asked several cocktail bloggers to accept the challenge of creating a unique infusion using a bottle of OVAL and whatever [...]
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July 10th, 2009 admin For those of you who haven’t been following my footsteps on Twitter, I arrived in New Orleans yesterday for the Tales of the Cocktail festival. My trip didn’t start so well, after listening to the lady sitting next to me on the plane verbally assault our fellow travelers about their “flight etiquette” for a half [...]
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July 7th, 2009 admin Is it really that time again!? Believe it or not, tomorrow I’m headed back down to the Big Easy for Tales of the Cocktail, “the summer’s most spirited event.” The weather has just started to not suck here in Connecticut (we’ve been hammered by serious rain, thunderstorms and yes, even a tornado for about the [...]
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