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Redux: Proustian-cocktail

NB: This is an old post. A bunch of people on Instagram, including @booksandcoffeestains and @bibliobimbo, are reading the first … More

Alain de Botton, artfulreader, books and booze, cocktails, gin, lindenblossom, literary cocktails, literary libations, Proust, Proustian cocktail

Casablanca 75 (at least that’s the working title).

This will be a cocktail recipe with a lot of caveats and suggestions. It is more a sketch of a … More

artfulreader, casablaca tea, casablanca 75, cedrar enivrant, cocktails with mint, gin, inspiration, mariage frères, perfume, summer cocktails, tea cocktails

The power of a sour

I’ve been working my way through my bar cart, trying to use up odd liqueurs and spirits gathered during my … More

amaretto, artfulreader, cocktails, gin, sours, white lady

Florals for spring..

As winter has had us in a tight grip(and I’ll continue moaning until the lilacs blossom OK?) I’m still in … More

artfulreader, cocktails, florals, florals for spring, gin, green tea, infused vermouth, inspiration, tea cocktails

Proustian-cocktail

When I first created this I called it “A la recherche-cocktail” but “Proustian” seemed simpler somehow. Although it isn’t Proust … More

Alain de Botton, artfulreader, books and booze, cocktails, gin, lindenblossom, literary cocktails, literary libations, Proust, Proustian cocktail

Gin&Sin&the Satanic Verses

Rosa Diamond at eighty-nine in a long silver sheath dress with a cigarette holder in one gloved hand and a … More

artfulreader, gin, gin-and-sin, prohibition cocktails, salman rushdie, the satanic verses

Because you know vermouth

I’ve had a tear sheet in one of my notebooks for along time, a recipe for making my own sweet … More

artfulreader, campari, cocktails, gin, make your own sweet vermouth, mixology, negroni, sweet vermouth

The age of wonder, and the wonder of cocktails

NB: This post is a translated (and somewhat edited) version of something from when I used to have a cocktailblog … More

Astronomy, books and booze, Caroline Herschel, cocktails, gin, inspiration, literary cocktails, Nonfiction, nonfictionnovember, rhubarb syrup, Richard Holmes, The age of wonder

The persian slip-on

…A medical man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper … More

Arthur Conan Doyle, books and booze, chai, cocktails, gin, inspiration, literary cocktails, london bars, sherlock holmes, the persian slip-on, the persian slipper, vermouth

Gardener’s nightcap

There is an hour just before dark, when the garden resents interference. Its work,no less then the gardener’s , is … More

artfulreader, books and booze, cocktails, dry vermouth, fee brothers rhubarb bitters, gardener's nightcap, gin, literary cocktails, muriel stuart, noilly prat, persephone books, reading, rosewater syrup

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