#cocktail book

[omegastation]

It is here. And it's a tiny bit ironic considering I don't ever drink alcohol! But will read everything and probably try to ajust one to make a mocktail :)

[cybartender]

Non solo espresso

Il caffè, spesso sottovalutato dai barman italiani, è in realtà un universo complesso e affascinante, ricco di tecniche, filosofie e metodi di estrazione unici. Per chi desidera approfondire queste tematiche, la Specialty Coffee Association Europe (SCAE) rappresenta una risorsa fondamentale. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili sul loro sito ufficiale: [SCAE…

[eurydike-on-media]

There is value to aesthetics. There is a calm that design can provide. These flowers were from Mother’s Day. They were on the brunch table and as the beautiful farm spot that hosted the event was closing for the day afterwards, they allowed us to keep them so they wouldn’t go to waste.

The farm is a coop that aims to respect the land and reflect on what we can provide to the Earth as much as we benefit from it. I’ll be sure to write about it in the future because it’s thanks to efforts like this that may help guarantee our future.

[lizseyi]

Flavour Blaster™ Gift Guide - From Stocking Fillers To Unique Gift Ideas, We Have It All!

We all know how fun a Flavour Blaster can be whilst working behind the bar - it’s time to bring the magic home. 

Although we developed our Flavour Blaster with hospitality in mind, the experience of the aroma bubble was created for everybody, regardless of their bartending experience. 

With such a range of versatile aromas being a trigger pull away, even your grandparents can experience the joy of the Flavour Blaster! Remember, we’re not just an aroma bubble - we have so much more to offer! 

Whatever your budget, we have the perfect gift for your loved ones, so you can share your passion for mixology and their love of delicious drinks!

Flavour Blaster MINI

Of course we have to start with our showstopper gift - the Flavour Blaster MINI.

Designed as a pocket friendly, smaller version of our Pro 2 model, it’s the perfect size for your kitchen countertop or bar trolley without taking up too much space. Using disposable tanks rather than reusable, it’s as easy as filling the tank and pulling the trigger! Now you can impress all of your guests from the ease of your home! 

It’s the perfect gift for the gadget lover, foodie, home bartender or the person who has everything!

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Not sure what to get? Let them choose! 

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Cocktail Book

Need a quick stocking filler for under £15? Our cocktail book is the perfect addition to anyone's recipe book collection! With hand drawn original illustration and original recipes, it provides plenty of inspiration for your next cocktail night. 

[msterpicasso]

@tiaindigo

[the-barefoot-hatter]

pediatricians are hard to find.

you aren't broken and other important things a triangle needs to hear

[thesixthduke]

[herbgerblin]

*shaking, shivering, covered in blood* wow that suffering sure can game am I right, gang. ha ha ha ha ha?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930 (Prohibition or not). Written by Harry Craddock, famous for his Savoy Hotel cocktails. Illustrations by Gilbert Rumbold. He offers advice for drinking a cocktail on page 9: "Quickly … while it is laughing at you!"

1st and 2nd photos: abe books 3rd photo: abaa.org

[skygemspeaks]

Hello happy pride month, here are some sweet and relatively low-stakes queer reads for you:

Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland - a blood mage retires after decades of fighting to protect his people, and moves to a small coastal town where the heat will be good for his chronic pain. He opens a cocktail bar and maybe falls in love with his business partner.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - case worker has to investigate a group home of very powerful magical orphans. One of them is the antichrist. He tries not to lose his mind. Finds love (platonic and romantic) along the way

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree - badass orc barbarian decides to retire from her life of fighting and opens a cafe in a town where no one has heard of coffee before. Finds a family along the way.

A Rival Most Vial by RK Ashwick - two rival potion shop owners who hate everything about each other find out they have to work together on a potion for the mayor. Find out that maybe they don't hate each other that much after all. Oh and there's a found family in there somewhere.

[omegastation]

Here comes my review (mostly writing & lore) of the Mass Effect Official Cocktail Book. I also included a list of all characters named with all page numbers related to their mentions.

I’m including this for our Andromeda Appreciation Week because the last part of the book is Andromeda-related :)

Introduction:

Cassandra Reeder is the recipe developer and Jim Festante is the writer.

The book is written by two writers in-universe. The first one is an asari calling herself “Ambree T’Sia” who is a lot like Gossip Girl (“you won’t guess and I’ll never tell” is an actual line in the book). We have to guess her identity but she doesn’t mind spreading a lot of stories about people and their drinks. 

The second writer is an angara called Roa who decided to add recipes to T’Sia’s existing ones, but more adapted to the Andromeda Galaxy. Roa dreams of a better world for everyone. He’s friend with Dutch and Anan from the Vortex.

Each writer presents drinks based on locations: bars and spots in the two galaxies. There also some snacks recipes as well.

Review: 

It’s hard for me to say anything about the recipes, though I will say it seems like there are different ingredients so a bit of everything for everyone. The difficulty can be adjusted: I thought some drinks looked really complicated to make (and some use other drinks in the books as base), but if you want to do a simple cocktail/mocktail, there are at least 10 good options.

Some recipes are directly named after characters or inspired by characters, so it might be fun to try some based on your favs. 

One drink seems weird to me, and that’s the N7 Shooter (mostly because of the mix of ingredients). If you try it, tell me what you think. 

Regarding American measurement: if you want to be precise, I would wait for a translation. Otherwise, I would get a cup and google some stuff before making it.

The drinks I'll try at some point, in a mocktail version only:

Tuchanka Sunset - 22

Perfection - 54

Tupari Blast - 61

Denorian Beer Granita - 64

Tequila Se’lai - 70

Shadowbrokertini - 74

The Mindfish - 83

Calibration Cooler - 95

Pink Marble - 130

Marljeh - 142

Kadara Sunrise - 143

So that’s pretty much it for the food & drinks, sorry!

My review is more about the lore and the writing.

I found the witty tone enjoyable. I like that there’s a distinction between how T’Sia writes and how Roa writes at the end of the book. T’Sia gossips a lot but there’s no malice. Roa is very earnest and seems quite adorable to me.

You’ll see I wrote down all the characters named and the pages, sometimes it says something about the writer, sometimes not.  A good example: Samantha is mentioned 5 times by T’Sia. She finds her charming and young, and mostly links her to drinks and other people (a full EDI/Traynor-like drink is in there). Meanwhile, Drack is mentioned 4 times, Vetra 3 times, but Roa has an entire page about how fascinated he is by Vetra.

Regarding what we learn, lore-wise: not a whole lot. It mostly plays on what we already know. 

What we do learn has to do with some characters. Without being too spoilery, it’s very light and fun for the most part - like Joker and Steve having a challenge, Vega seducing T’Sia, characters loving specific drinks (like Traynor), etc. Some characters (like Kaidan and Miranda) are sharing their woes or backstory. Roa, in the later part of the book, talks a lot about Dutch and their meeting is very very cute.

My favorite anecdote is that Liam’s movie night spreads to the Nexus and becomes a tradition :)

Some characters are very absent while others are more present. I would say it’s logical in a way, but it’s one thing to be aware of. If you’re a fan of Jaal, there are no mentions in the book. Though, like I said, a mention doesn’t always mean a lot: Peebee is mentioned once but we learn nothing new.  I also found it a bit sad that Ashley is not in the book. Obviously, I’m happy to have Kaidan there, but Ashley would have been a wonderful character for fun anecdotes here.

Characters named and pages:

Note: if you find that I forgot a mention, drop me a DM. I’ll add the page and/or character!

Joker - 12, 98

Sel Vass - 14

Solem Dal’serah - 21

Karin Chakwas - 25

Padok Wiks and and Urp - 26

Wrex - 26, 65, 106

Aria - 19, 27

Oleg Petrovsky - 27

James Vega -29, 46, 112

Shepard - 33, 30, 41, 93

Garrus - 37, 38, 95

Samantha - 42, 43, 73, 97, 106

Kaidan - 49, 106, 116

Miranda - 54

Kasumi - 55

Doran - 59, 60, 61

Grunt - 66

Fist - 69

Anderson - 71

Elijah Khan - 81, 88

Emily Wong - 93

Jack - 94

EDI - 97, 106, 

Steve - 98, 120

Tali - 101

Aethyta - 51, 57, 106

Dutch smith - 123, 126, 127, 131, 156

Anan T’Mari - 123, 127, 131, 156

Ryder - 123, 128, 133, 135

Drack - 133, 134, 137, 152

Umi Henon - 133, 134, 135, 138

Vetra - 137, 144, 154

Peebee - 137

Sloane - 138

Lexi - 138

Khan Dagher - 141, 143, 147

Kesh - 150

Suvi - 154

Buxil - 156

Niilj - 156

[cybartender]

St-Germain sceglie Sophie Turner per la campagna del St-Germain Hugo

St-Germain, il celebre liquore francese ai fiori di sambuco, ha lanciato una nuova campagna globale con l’attrice Sophie Turner come protagonista. Iscriviti(GRATIS) per leggere l'articolo completo

St-Germain, il rinomato liquore francese ai fiori di sambuco, ha scelto l’attrice Sophie Turner (nota per i suoi ruoli in “Game of Thrones” e “X-Men”) come protagonista della sua nuova campagna pubblicitaria. Questa iniziativa celebra il cocktail di punta del marchio, lo St-Germain Hugo, noto per il suo gusto fresco e leggero, ideale per l’estate. Un’icona globale per un drink…

[kilianromero]

Cocktelera Universal by Antonio Josa (1933)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was sitting at a wooden table in the history section of a bookstore I frequently go to irl. There was a stack of locked up books on the table. Simone de Beauvoir sat down with me, and we drank apricot cocktails together. I woke up with pain in my neck and stomach.

[7yd1a]

THEY WERE INSANE FOR THIS

[whoopseydaisy]

The Overflowing Heart

I will tell you how I made this witch’s token, but you will have to find a way of your own. It is as Grandmother Wren told us,

“Remember always that some portion of magic is yours to wield, and that the world contains many, many truths.”

the recipe:

3/4 oz Kazuki gin

1 1/2 oz. Sake + tea mixture

1 oz. fresh squeezed grapefruit

3/4 oz. Strega

shake over ice, and serve in your finest or favourite tea cup

garnish with dried rose petals

notes:

Sherringham Kazuki gin— a collaboration of one of my favourite distilleries and my favourite local tea shop, Westholme Tea Farm. Made from Japanese cherry blossoms, and locally grown tea leaves with notes of yuzu, grapefruit, and juniper. I first visited Sherringham in a trio of my own, on a day long adventure, visiting a beach someway up the island. Westholme is run by an old coworker of my Aunt’s, and his partner who makes gorgeous pottery. I could not put words to my excitement when I first heard whispers of their collaboration.

Sake + Tea Mixture— I can never fully recreate this just the same. There is magic in that, I think. I have little left. I made it by taking a sprinkling of the following teas from Westholme, and cold steeping them in a mason jar with a large ice cube, topped with sake and a splash of moon bathed witch water.

featuring:

Blossom: (jasmine green, floral), for the cottage’s calendar

Bi Luo Chun: (green, delicate and earthy), for i thought it was grown here, over seven long years (I rolled a nat 1 on my perception check)

Pur-eh: (fermented, earthy), for its mushroominess and it’s connection therin

Dog: (black assam, vanilla and cardamon, from the Chinese Zodic series), the cardamom pod and a few leaves, for our beloved Fox

Witch Water: the witch water used in this potion was bathed in the Friday, October 13th New Moon (a day so witchy I thought for sure the class would be released that day!) in an empty kazuki gin vessel

~

Grapefruit— because it was pink and in season and a citrus I love dearly

Strega— the witch liqueur! According to legend, Giuseppe Alberti was given the recipe for this elixir after saving a witch falling out of the sacred walnut tree, under which witches would convene to dance and perform their rituals.

for the cocktail chapter of the @worldsbeyondpod unofficial cookbook