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Drink Recipes

The Kir

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The Kir I love this cocktail for three reasons.  First, there is absolutely no controversy about the name, the ingredients or the origins.  Secondly, the gentleman who created it perfectly married pragmatism and marketing.  Thirdly, the cocktail is cool, simple and easy to execute. Now the kir was around ages before it was known as a kir.  The combination of cassis and wine has a long history from Burgundy to Normandy, but it would have been an alcoholic afterthought in the annals of bartending if not for Félix Kir, Mayor of Dijon during WWII and its aftermath.  Now during the […]

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Margarita

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Margarita No one cocktail was so humiliated during the dark days of cocktails and no cocktail can have as much of an elevation in the resurgence of cocktails as the Margarita.  A classic Margarita is like great Italian cooking, combine a few quality ingredients in the proper proportions and you create something that is more than the sum of its parts.  That is very bold for both chef and bartender because there is nowhere to hide if you make a mistake.  I grew up in the dark days of bartending when a margarita was a four count of tequila with […]

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