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Friday Cocktail Hour: The French 75

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: June 7, 2013

The classic French 75. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

The classic French 75. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

It's a celebratory week here in the Ruhlman household. Two significant graduations and the 18th birthday of my daughter. So bubbly is on hand, and it led me to this thoroughly refreshing and restorative cocktail, the French 75, which I was first introduced to at the Velvet Tango Room. The concoction was apparently named after a French field gun, owing to its kick, at Harry's Bar in Paris, and I love its French name best, Soixante Quinze. It couldn't be simpler: a gin sour (lemon juice and simple syrup), topped with dry sparkling wine, finished with a twist. Best wishes to all on this first Friday of June, but especially to the parents out there with kids who are graduating.

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Lemon Drop

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 12, 2013

Lemon Drop. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

Lemon Drop. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

A couple weeks ago, inspired by my BFF Blake Bailey's latest bio, Farther and Wilder (boffo WSJ review here), I offered a Tom Collins, gin-lemon-soda. But on retrospect it was only OK—it would be the perfect libation on a hot summer evening, but it was March. Also, I could hardly taste the gin, and what's the point of that unless you're drinking the cheap shit? Just to check, I ordered one last weekend at a restaurant and it was so bad I didn't even finish it (which is not like me, that's how bad it was—how do you screw up something as simple as that?). But I loved the idea of the heavy lemon. I loved the idea of, every now and then, not being ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Tom Collins

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 22, 2013

A Tom Collins. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

A Tom Collins, a favorite of Charles Jackson.
Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Today's cocktail is in honor of my best friend's latest biography out this week, Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson. Jackson is all but forgotten but was the toast of Hollywood for a time and a highly regarded novelist, best known for The Lost Weekend. The Wall Street Journal calls Blake Bailey's book "brilliant and gripping," which is all the more amazing in that the story is largely about literary failure. The Lost Weekend was until now Jackson's only enduring legacy, and remembered only because a great movie was made of it. Blake, whom the Daily Beast and his next subject, Philip Roth, both called the best biographer working today, ...

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Making Mayonnaise

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 18, 2013

Homemade mayonnaise is faster to make then you think. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

You can't buy this kind of mayonnaise. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Yet again finishing up a manuscript with mayonnaise on my mind, and I always think of Donna's lovely images, captured when spring light was coming through our kitchen window. I could look at these forever (and now, as I couldn't five years ago, I can post them to Twitter). Thanks, Donna! And remember, the emulsion is less about the yolk than about the liquid. Originally posted on May 21, 2008 Finishing up the revisions of a manuscript and going over some fat-based sauces has returned me to the mayonnaise. Like the popover, it’s the story of a great transformation. Yolk, lemon juice, salt, and oil. mayo2 There simply isn’t ...

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Homemade Mayonnaise

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 16, 2012

 

Homemade mayonnaise is faster to make then you think. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

I have so much crap on my desk! Being gone for three weeks it piles up. Books I have to at least familiarize myself with, dried soy beans and a tofu press, the manuscript I've got to fix, knives and rolling pins and some weird Fagor three-way cooker to figure out, emails to respond to, the ineluctable ... not modality of being ... but the ineluctable compulsion to check twitter feed. OY! But I never get tired of mayonnaise you make yourself.  I don't care if it's with a hand blender or whisk. Helmann's is fine—I use that too, but it's not anywhere near homemade mayo. Two totally different products, and that's and why I love it.  Its goodness is something you can't buy. You ...

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