March 2008 - Posts
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WHEN PEOPLE find out I’m a wine guy, the questions usually follow. “What’s a good wine with steak?” “What’s the best wine you’ve ever had?” “No, seriously, what’s your real name?” And a more vexing one: “Is expensive wine actually worth it?” I have trouble...
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OUR FAVORITE bartenders tend to double as psychologists and pharmacists. So we bellied up to the bar at the Franklin Café (278 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, 617.350.0010) and asked bartender Nancy Theodore which libations she’d prescribe to soothe some common...
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PUCKER UP, sweetheart. Actually, make that pucker up, sweettart — because one sip of the fruity, tangy cocktails that are popping up on your favorite drink lists and your lips will purse into a happy pout. As kids, we adored Sour Patch Kids and Smarties...
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IT'S NOT easy being green." So sang a triangle-mouthed frog puppet, once. Of course, at the time he had a hand jammed up his ... well, anyway, I'm not sure his plight applies to us. Still, mention "green" in the context of wine...
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TOP O' the morning to you! Or, top o' the evening. Or, top o' the aftern - all right, you know what? You get the point. St. Patrick's Day is upon us, and if you're like every other person who lives in Greater Boston, you're probably...
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A.J. RATHBUN, we'd kill to buy you a drink. Your book, Good Spirits: Recipes, Revelations, Refreshments, and Romance, Shaken and Served with a Twist (Harvard Common Press, 2007; $29.95), is some of the most exhaustive cocktail reading we've done...
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