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Tales of the Cocktail: Tangled Up in Blue

August 31, 2012 by  
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Welcome to the first, and maybe the last, technical analysis of blue as a cocktail color, especially as presented by people in white suits that stain really quite well.

Recipe: Original Mai Tai (Victor Bergeron, 1944)

August 30, 2012 by  
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Greeted with a cheer of “Maita’i roa ae!” (roughly “Out of this world! The Best!”), Victor Bergeron’s status in the cocktail world was assured with his Mai Tai.

Tales of the Cocktail: Curaçao

August 30, 2012 by  
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David Wondrich, Philip Duff, and Alexandre Gabriel tour the history of cirtus and of every bar’s most important cocktail liqueur flavour – curacao.

Recipe: Pluto’s Revenge

August 24, 2012 by  
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The name’s a touch of an inside joke, but we’ve grown to like this blue variant on the old Barbarella cocktail.