The Bull-Dog Highball

The Bull-Dog Highball

The mysteries continue with today’s Bull-Dog Highball. First published in Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book circa 1930 as the Bull-Dog Cocktail (note the hyphen),  Leo Cotton saw fit to publish the same recipe as a Highball five years later.  Name...
Cocktails at Gordon Ramsay’s Pub & Grill

Cocktails at Gordon Ramsay’s Pub & Grill

Ryan and I celebrated 15 years of marriage on June 24th. Normally that would call for a huge celebration but this year we had to work through a stressful importation situation that put a crimp on properly marking the occasion. The day was pretty horrible. Ear marked...

How to make alcoholic ginger beer at home

Home brewing can be intimidating to those of us who haven’t mastered the craft but it doesn’t need to be. At its core, home brewing a batch of beer is much like cooking a pot of soup. It takes some preparation, quality ingredients and good filtered water....

9195 Sunset Blvd.

Past the Beverly Hills Country Club, among the wonderfully fragrant eucalyptus trees along Hollywood’s famous Sunset Blvd lies the location that brought to life the Moscow Mule cocktail. Today this Art Deco era building is now a Jaguar dealership. An aged brass sign...