Posted in NYC Events, Spirits on May 12th, 2012
A pic from last night’s soiree at the 2012 Manhattan Cocktail Classic Gala with some of my fellow managers from Hearth & Terroir. And yes, that is a black bear behind us standing on his hind legs, fangs and claws bared. Thankfully, we weren’t harmed, but I did hear the bear was spotted loitering around […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2011
There it stood. The cathedral of Notre Dame. A foreboding, massive block of granite with ornately carved details covering every inch. Stone figures and vicious gargoyles festoon the walls, looking down on the ever-changing face of Paris over the centuries. We had just stepped out of the train station and she was our first sight. […]
Posted in Spirits on Jun 15th, 2010
Originally created in Florence at the Baglioni Hotel in the 1920’s, the Negroni was the regular drink of a bar customer named Camillo Negroni. Italians are nuts about bitters and Camillo couldn’t get enough of the mouth-watering sensation of Campari. So much so, that his name lives on in bars around the world. Campari is […]
