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Why Can’t Hollywood Movies Get Bartending Right? - Fix Me a Drink
There is seemingly no detail too small for big-budget movies to get right—except bartending, that is. While lots of films depict bartenders at work, few of them get the details...
Whiskey Secrets: You Should Be Drinking Younger (and Cheaper) Scotch
I have two bottles of blended Scotch whisky on my tasting table right now. Both are small sample bottles. Both have an “8” on the label to tell you how...
Flaviar is Launching a New Podcast: Fix Me a Drink
Two of the world’s foremost liquor experts, Dave Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum, are launching a new podcast called Fix Me a Drink.
For the Love of Drinking: A Reverse Manhattan
The sensible option would undoubtedly have been to politely turn down any offer of alcohol in preference for something soft, even abstention, but we were in too deep by then....
Behind the Drink: The Bramble
Dick Bradsell was a legendary British bartender who played a key role in the rebirth of the cocktail. The delicious drinks that he created became sensations in London and ultimately...
Can a True Martini be a Martini without Vermouth?
A little while back my wife Karen and I were contemplating dinner in the Airbnb apartment we had rented in the Italian (more or less) city of Trieste, which is...
