It’s 1964 and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is limping into ’65 in serious financial trouble. They want to have a laid back Christmas party, well they have to have a laid back party because the budget can’t account for anything else. But Roger Sterling finds out that the heir to the Lucky Strike throne, Lee Garner,… Continue reading Vintage Christmas Ads & An Eggnog Recipe
Tag: Drink Recipes
Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
It’s Friday the 13th and what better drink to have on a day like today than a Black Velvet. This drink originates way before Prohibition. It’s said that after Prince Albert died in 1861 the steward at the Brook’s Club in London wanted everything in mourning, even the champagne. So we have this half Guinness… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: Black Velvet
The American Pulps Drink Like A Character Series
Because any excuse to drink is a good excuse we’ve started a series called, Drink Like a Character. Whether it’s a drink from a TV Show (the Flaming Moe perhaps?), a book, or a movie – we want to make it. Regardless of genre or taste, we’re not picky. If you’ve got any requests, email… Continue reading The American Pulps Drink Like A Character Series
Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
It’s widely accepted that Jennings Stockton Cox is the man who invented the Daiquiri in the Cuban town of, well, Daiquirií in 1898. But it was the bartender at the El Floridita, Constantino Ribalaigua Vert who crafted the drink for Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gary Cooper and of course Ernest Hemingway, made El Floridita in… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The Daiquiri
Prohibition Era Cocktails: The French 75
Created in 1915 at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris by Harry MacElhone the French 75 is said to have gotten it’s name because they said the drink had as much kick as a 75-millimeter field artillery gun. After making one I can attest, it’s the most potent champagne mixed-drink I’ve had. Harry’s New York… Continue reading Prohibition Era Cocktails: The French 75
Prohibition Cocktails: The Bee’s Knees
This is a recipe from the book Contraband Cocktails by Paul Dickson. I’m going to try to get through all of these and write about them eventually. In order to do so I need to get my hand on some absinthe which is not cheap. When we set up a Patreon it’s the important things… Continue reading Prohibition Cocktails: The Bee’s Knees
Prohibition
The Volstead Act January 17, 1920 that was the day the Volstead Act (the 18th Amendment) went into effect. Like ObamaCare, that wasn’t the official name of the National Prohibition Act. It was nicknamed after Andrew Volstead a Congressman from Minnesota who introduced the bill. I’m going through a few books and recreating some Prohibition… Continue reading Prohibition
Orson Welles, Fritz Lang and the Art of Cinematography and Film Editing (as well as the recipe to Fritz’s Blue Martini)
I was going to write an article about how influential Orson Welles and Fritz Lang were for us and many other people in our industry and then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences went and pissed a lot of people off with their decision to present the awards for makeup and hairstyling, live-action… Continue reading Orson Welles, Fritz Lang and the Art of Cinematography and Film Editing (as well as the recipe to Fritz’s Blue Martini)
Drink Like A Character: Champagne Cocktail Recipe – The Big Sleep (1939)
Now I know that’s not a scene from The Big Sleep but it’s one of my favorites from The Godfather Part II and he mentions champagne cocktails so there ya go. Chandler liked his Gimlet’s but Marlowe’s client General Sternwood reminiscences of his champagne cocktails while in a hot house wearing a wool blanket in… Continue reading Drink Like A Character: Champagne Cocktail Recipe – The Big Sleep (1939)
Drink Like a Character: Clarence’s Mulled Wine Recipe – It’s A Wonderful Life
I was just thinking of a flaming rum punch. No, it’s not cold enough for that. Not nearly cold enough…Wait a minute…wait a minute…Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. Off with you, me lad, and be lively! -Clarence OK Christmas is over but I was too busy drinking this stuff… Continue reading Drink Like a Character: Clarence’s Mulled Wine Recipe – It’s A Wonderful Life