July 2011
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Pharrell | Qream Liqueur Launch
Even more product placement! I wonder what their aim is with this sure-to-be-dynamite spirit. Oh well, I can only hope for the day when the worlds of hip hop and single malts merge….I wait with baited breath.
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Happy Anniversary....Happy Anniversary....Happy...
How does an anniversary affect cocktail indulgence? It depends on the type of day being observed….
Maybe a small celebratory clink of two flutes of champagne, as the resilient couple sends cheers to another year together….
It might be a respectful-yet-somber toast towards fallen comrades, who enabled the rest of the brigade to control the beachhead….
Possibly having the...
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[Spirit]uality: Christening a Ship | Blessing a... →
The issue of religion within drinking culture is both vast and nebulous. It spans from praising various gods of distilled spirits and fermented beverages, to religious parables such as Jesus turning water into wine, to offering prayers before drinking, as during a toast. Two other issues that are “spiritual” in nature are christening a ship with a spirit bottle, and a group of friends...
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“For if the Zeitgeist was technology, then steel and glass structure was...”
– Franz Schulze, Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography
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The Glory of the Pimm's Cup →
Cheers to the first truly British experience I had when I lived in London….a Pimm’s Cup. You can’t keep it all the way British and have one while cheering on Andy Murray in the Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Final this year, but at least you can have Pimm’s!!
“Pimm’s is Land Of Hope And Glory and Jerusalem in a glass. It screams Pomp and Circumstance with its typeface...
