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Winner Winner! Twenty, SousVide Supreme,
and Cocktail Name

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: December 5, 2012

 

Introducing the "Major Award."/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Cocktail Name Winner "Major Award," from Stefan Was, of Cleveland, OH This was chosen from many, many wonderful names, by Paulius and Claudia, and I whole-heartedly embrace this great and elegant name, in its saying Cleveland without using Cleveland, its nuanced suggestion of Christmas and fun without saying either. Poetry! "Major Award" is a reference, of course, to one of my favorite movies, "A Christmas Story," which opens in Cleveland's Public Square. Donna and I never see a box with "Fragile" written on it without saying aloud, "Fra-GEE-lay." Darren McGavin's major award was of course, the famous leg lamp. Stop by Paulius's Velvet Tango Room, and you'll see the lamp in an upstairs window. Stefan, Paulius says come on in and you'll have a Major ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Name This Cocktail Contest!

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: November 30, 2012

Mise en place for the cocktail to be named.... Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

A few weeks ago when Donna was gadding about in NYC, I asked my dear pal Lester if he'd have a drink with me at the best bar in the world, aka Velvet Tango Room. I wanted to have a look at its menu and to have a cocktail I created, or rather, riffed on a classic, The Martinez. Mine is called The Berkshire Martinez and I am honored to be on the menu. The bar's owner is Paulius Nasvytis. In a tale too odd and complicated to go into here, he and Claudia Young, longtime Nashville resident, are an item. Before Lester and I could head off for some greezy Chinese chuck, Paulius and Claudia arrived. ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Moscow Mule

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 25, 2012

The Moscow Mule/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

By request and for my own curiosity, for my fascination with ginger beer, and most, my compulsion to SCREAM ... indoor voice, Michael ... deep breath ... if you're going to drink vodka, either admit you simply want to mainline alcohol (not a judgment! I'm there frequently myself!), or drink vodka that actually has flavor, such Ohio's own OYO made from soft red winter wheat grown near its Columbus distillery. The Standard Bartender's Guide, revised and enlarged by James A. Beard (originally published in 1940, before the Moscow Mule existed), instructs simply this: "Squeeze into a 12-ounce glass 1/2 Lime and drop in the Rind. Add ice cubes and 1-1/2 jiggers Vodka and fill with Ginger Beer. Stir and serve." How easy is that?! (Verdict: cool, light, and ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Whiskey Sour

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: May 4, 2012

The Whiskey Sour/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

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 ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Manhattan

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 27, 2012

This is an old-fashioned Manhattan. With jarred maraschino cherries like my uncle Jon loved. But make a good one. With Fabbri cherries and good rye. Straight up. The skewer holding the cherries is an emblem of my childhood. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

I’m old-fashioned, I admit, and this is another Friday cocktail post devoted to classic cocktails. It’s not because I’m nostalgic (though I am). It’s because classics are classics for a reason: they’re good. There’s a reason you don’t have a Swanson’s TV dinner in your freezer but will never tire of a well-made Martini. My dad was a Martini man. He was also an Ad Man (who actually looked a lot like Don Draper), a creative director at a Cleveland ad firm where I interned the summer after my freshman year of college. ...

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