The French French 75

Yes 90% of the recipes out there have Gin playing the major role instead of my cognac recipe. If you want to succumb to peer pressure go ahead and use gin but stir instead of shake.

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Negroni

I was introduced to the Negroni back in 2002.  At that point, all the vermouth you could find in most places was low priced, low quality offerings that if they were ever good were completely oxidized on the speed rail but at that point I did not know any better and I felt so cosmopolitan ordering one.  The other great thing about the Negroni when you had to tell a bartender how to make it was the simplicity of equal parts, gin, vermouth, and Campari.  Come to think of it why did so many bars have Campari but no one […]

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Brooklyn

Of course if Manhattan inspired a cocktail, the other New York boroughs were not going to be left out.

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