Reading & Drinking
A well crafted story is surprising and intimate, built with intent and great care to stir within you something long buried or hidden away. And, it turns out, a great cocktail will do the same. Every Friday, just in time for Happy Hour and the weekend, you can find a new cocktail post here exploring the urgent matter of reading and drinking. Expect each post to take a brief but intense look at a crafted narrative—whether it be fiction or non-fiction, graphic novel or movie or television series—and pair it with a unique cocktail, suitable and silent, as a companion along your journey. Please, leave a comment if you have one, and questions, too.
I look forward to reading and drinking with you.
“When You (Don’t) Get Better” & Remember Rage
“When You (Don’t) Get Better” has the cantor and voice of a creation story, it's poem with a how-we-came-to-be narrative that has a serious, urgent tone and that carries with it some semblance of a (dark) fairy tale. Remember Rage, the cocktail inspired by the poem, is a building storm of pear & apricot with ginger and lemon and floral heat buried beneath.
Desire, Coffee, and Studies Abroad
“Study Abroad”, written by Cassie Burkhardt and published online at Rattle, is a bittersweet reminder why we look back through the windows of our memory, and its cocktail is an espresso martini that replaces vodka with cognac, creating a bold, cherry-spiced core around which crème de cacao, cherry heering, and chocolatey amari are wrapped.
