The descriptions of these cocktails on this 1940s cocktail menu don’t indicate what they were made with, but coconut and pineapple indicate that the ingredients…
This limited edition print breaks down 68 mixed drinks into their constituent parts. Follow the lines in this mother-of-all-liquor-related-diagrams for the recipes of your favorite…
Posting a link to a great story on a coffee enthusiast’s mission to help Japanese recovery workers and tsunami survivors. Read more about Yoshi Masuda’s…
Via Kotte comes this article on redesigning the Oreo cookie for the Chinese consumer market. The Oreo cookie was introduced by Nabisco in 1912, and appears…
Two words of my favorite words that I never expected to go together: bacon frosting. Courtesy of my third and fourth favorite words, Archie McPhee.
Did you know how bad that a plate of nachos is for you? Now you do, along with turducken, currywurst and something absolutely awful-sounding called…
This is a European recipe, so the measurements are in metric weight, not cups. If you’re in the US, you’ll need a scale, but the…
Profiteroles are my favorite non-Italian Italian desserts. A profiterole is basically a cream puff, though it can be filled with cream or ice cream. The…
Many years ago, my grandmother baked a cake for her daughter’s birthday party. Her daughter – my aunt – was a serious, raw fruit-eating vegan.…
This “old timer” wrote a neat letter to the editor written after the end of Prohibition on the lost art of mixed drinks. Besides the writer’s…