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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Whiskey Sour
I had my first cocktail with an egg white in it at The Best Bar in the World, and it was a revelation. A Ramos gin fizz. The egg white gave it the kind of body I'd never felt. (And nutrition! If LA starlets can call an egg white omelet a meal, I can call my cocktail a meal!) I've since become a huge fan of what an egg white can bring to a drink. I even put the VTR Whiskey Sour in Ruhlman's Twenty!
Herewith the Friday Cocktail Hour a classic whiskey sour. It's typically made with bourbon, and that's fine, as is scotch. But after last week's Manhattan, which used Old Overholt Rye, I had a rye on the rocks to evaluate it ...
Also posted in Books, Cocktails, Recipes Tagged bourbon, cocktail, egg white, twenty, Velvet Tango Room, whiskey 63 Comments
Culinary Intelligence—An Emerging Trend?
I spent a couple days in New York last week meeting with two very good publishers, one of whom, a veteran and very smart editor, asked whether I'd thought about how busy people can actually integrate real cooking and real food into their daily lives. He wasn't talking about the crispy pig I had at Maialino hours later. That, as you can see, is real food and real good. (Two standbys for me in NYC, where I go just to feel good, because NYC makes me all jittery and my eyes go out of sync like that Mad-eye guy in Harry Potter but not in a useful way: Bar Boulud and any one of Danny Meyer's restaurants. It's not just the food, ...
Also posted in Books, chefs, Food Writing, Travel Tagged Culinary Intelligence, danny meyer, French Kids Eat Everything, Karen Le Billon, Maialino, NYC, Peter Kaminsky 167 Comments
Chicago Hot Dogs
Also posted in american regional cuisine, Article, Charcuterie, Food Culture, Food Photography, Pork!, Travel Tagged adventure, Chicago, hot dogs, Serious Eats, style 1 Comment
Food Coma TV
Also posted in american regional cuisine, Article, chefs, Food Culture, New Media, Restaurants, Travel, Video Tagged Food Coma TV, food culture, Joe Ricchio, Joel Beauchamp, Maine, short film, video 3 Comments
Florida Tomatoes Pickers
Also posted in Farming, Food Culture, Food Politics, Video Tagged agribusiness, daniel klein, farmers, migrant workers, rights, The Perennial Plate, tomato 26 Comments














