Monday cocktail news roundup

A quick roundup today of news and ephemera about cocktails (read: I’m feeling crushing guilt that I haven’t posted in a while, so here, happy?!)

Amazon says buyers of my book also dig Randy Newman. On plus side, these folks also buy a how-to sex book (mercifully unrelated to Randy Newman).

Finally, a solution to the age-old conundrum [...]

Hitting The Road for West Coast Earth Day Book Tour…tour…tour…tour…

I’m heading this week for a West Coast book tour. Now I know what you’re thinking: Dear god, why would anyone want to go listen this idiot read from some book about cocktails, organic or not?

Don’t worry, this idiot won’t be reading. He’ll be shaking. As in making tasty cocktails, which if you come to any of these [...]

A different shade of “green” for St. Patrick’s Day

Okay, it’s St. Patrick’s Day, which means you’ll likely be drinking and it’ll most likely be some hue of green.

Trouble is, green beer is, well, beer (often crappy beer) colored with green food coloring. Most cocktails served today also tend to achieve their emerald color from chemicals not found in nature.

That’s why I’m going with [...]

Round-up of recent media coverage for my organic cocktails book

Rather than bore readers (all two or three of you) to tears with a series of onanistic postings about recent media coverage of my just-published book on organic cocktails, I’m going to chuck it all in one posting. In other words, all the same blatant self-promotion; just served up quicker… (click in each logo)

 

 

 

 

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Organic cocktails juggernaut heads to NYC!

Come knock back organic cocktails (free!) at NYC’s Counter, dubbed the “epicenter” of the Big Apple organic cocktail scene, on Tuesday, November 10. Oh, and if you fee like it, buy a copy of my book. Come to think of it, go nuts, buy two!

Click on the book cover below for details… Ya’ll come!

 

In blatant power grab, President Obama cuts into my TV debut in which I blather on about my indescribably important book about organic cocktails!

You can see the clip by clicking on the station logo:

Tasting Table dishes up a review of my organic cocktails book

I talk about how “a glass is just a funny-looking plate” and other kakamamie thoughts on organic cocktails in today’s St. Pete Times piece about my book

Click on the St. Pete Times logo…

Being part of a triumvirate sounds heroic – even when it involves cookbooks, dammit!

Tampa Trib food writer Jeff Houck graciously includes me in roundup of Tampa cookbook author trio. I mean triumvirate!!!

I blither about spanking thyme, cellophane-wrapped tongues and other things obviously relevant to making and enjoying organic cocktails

My podcast interview yesterday with Tampa Tribune food writer and friend Jeff Houck about my organic cocktails book (click on Jeff’s mug).