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Friday Cocktail Hour: Name This Cocktail Contest!
Mise en place for the cocktail to be named.... Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. A few weeks ago when Donna was gadding about in NYC, I asked my dear pal Lester if he'd have a drink with me at the best...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Scamper Juice
Crashy Zacher's Scamper Juice: punch, the shared libation, the communal drink.Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Holiday punch was out of fashion even in Charles Dickens' day, but he loved the old recipes...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Eggnog
Cooked eggnog: a true holiday treat. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I'm so pleased with results of the cooked eggnog I wrote about long ago, I wanted to repost an official tested recipe. I'm a fan of...
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How to Cook Your Goose!
Goose Broth with Foie Gras and Vegetables/Photo by Shimon and Tammar Rothstein Out of nowhere My Girl Friday shouted, "You should do a post on goose!" with her customary joie de vivre. So when I was...
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Top 10 Posts 2012
Time to reflect on the year that has passed, a good one with much productivity here in the Ruhlman household! As our hobbled economy slouches toward recovery (and a fractious House of Reps hides...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Pink Lady(from a cool new digital book)
Ingredients for a Pink Lady; tap on each for helpful info/from 25 Classic Cocktails I first read about a new self-published iBook, 25 Classic Cocktails, published to iTunes, when Tampa journalist Jeff...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Key Lime Daiquiri
Key Lime Daiquiri. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. This blast of arctic air and wind and snow and gray has me longing for the lovely afternoons and evenings of the Key West I left a week ago. Nine full...
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Friday Cocktail Hour Revisited: The Dark & Stormy
Another classic, the Dark & Stormy. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman I've been traveling and hobnobbing with entertainment industry folks this week, so work and body clock are all off. Now I'm back in...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Clover Club
A classic cocktail: the Clover Club. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. This Friday cocktail recipe is posted with heavy shame. I'm sorry, but it's the way it sometimes goes with blog posts. I'll always be...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Boulevardier
The Boulevardier. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Were it not for the Internet, my guess is that only the most devoted barfly would know about the Boulevardier. It's not in any of my cocktail books,...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Rye Old-Fashioned
The Rye Old-Fashioned. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. My inclination is to simplify. And with this, one of the oldest and sturdiest of cocktails, the old fashioned, should be just that, as Brad Parsons...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Donna Paloma
A freshly made Paloma. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I've written before in the depths of winter that now is grapefruit season and grapefruits were my first realization that food was in fact seasonal....
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Vesper
The classic Vesper. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Having recently delighted in Skyfall with son James, and with a fresh bottle of Lillet on hand, and having never tried this preposterous sounding...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Tom Collins
A Tom Collins, a favorite of Charles Jackson.Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Today's cocktail is in honor of my best friend's latest biography out this week, Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Hasty Negroni
The Hasty Negroni. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. There was no other way given everyone's schedule. We arrived from a relaxing vacay with Mom in West Palm on Monday night, and Donna's sister, Regina, a...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Lemon Drop
Lemon Drop. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. A couple weeks ago, inspired by my BFF Blake Bailey's latest bio, Farther and Wilder (boffo WSJ review here), I offered a Tom Collins, gin-lemon-soda. But on...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Sour Cherry Daiquiri
Sour Cherry Daiquiri. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Some cocktails are spontaneous given what's at hand. I happened to be making nougat, the French confection created by pouring cooked sugar and honey...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Man About Town
A rum Negroni, otherwise called a Man About Town. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I pay for a service called SaneBox to deal with email overload, so much of it mass PR mail. Somehow a diligent soul,...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: El Diablo
El Diablo is the perfect answer this weekend. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Cinco de Mayo is Sunday. How many of you know what it celebrates or why? Shaw Lash is one of the key cooks and brains in the...
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Friday Cocktail Hour: Key Sunrise
Key Sunrise, Goddammit. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman So my oldest and dearest pal, Lester, feeling a bit fidgety several Fridays ago, texted to coax me off work early. I had cooking to do so I said,...
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