As someone who at 11 read every violent and vicious James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, I always remembered Bond’s tip for drinking vodka (as mentioned in Moonraker):
Shake some pepper onto the vodka’s surface and …

After reading Cosmopolitan, an entertaining book written by New York bartender Toby Cecchini – the man credited with reinventing the Cosmopolitan in the late 80s, which in turn led to its huge success (somewhat to …

Rich, smoky, seductive and (if well made) smooth, the sazerac is the cocktail that started it all (some claim it’s the first cocktail ever made).
Hailing from New Orleans, the sazerac was originally made from …

I was young and alone in Paris on my birthday when I fell in love with whiskey sours.
This was longer ago than I care to recall but I do remember wandering down some small street …