We leave for New Orleans in less than a week, but though I have a ton to do I have no energy to any of it đ It’s been rather humid out here in Las Vegas which I suppose is good training for the weather down in Louisiana this time of year. Man! The warm, sticky...
The Caipirnha is said to be Brazil’s national cocktail. The drink is a mixture of cachaça (a distilled sugarcane based spirit), sugar and lime. Given this little tidbit of information, I am baffled by Mr. Boston’s next 1935 recipe, the “Brazil...
With a name like Brainstorm, I expected today’s Mr. Boston’s cocktail to honor a famous inventor. After conducting my daily vintage cocktail book hunt, the oldest version I could find was in Hugo Ensslin’s 1917 ‘Recipes for Mixed Drinks.’...
By all accounts, Harry Craddockâs Savoy Cocktail book lays claim to the next recipe published in Mr. Bostonâs. This isnât the first cocktail to be identical to the Savoy and probably wonât be the last since they were produced within 5 years of one another. The older...
As I continue through Mr. Boston’s 1935 cocktail book, I’m finding that there is a lot of misinformation floating around the drink world. On the heels of the Aviation mistaken Blue Devil, comes yet another recipe many bloggers misdescribe. The Blue Moon...
