Sex, Drugs (including Organic Cocktails) and Rock n Roll

Famed NYC rock venue The Knitting Factory today completes its move from Tribeca to Brooklyn, opening tonight. New digs isn’t all that’s fresh. The club’s Knit Bar will be serving organic cocktails. Would love to hear how these drinks taste (if anyone remembers what they ordered or much else).

The Scottish are coming! The Scottish are coming!

The first ever organic Islay single malt whisky will soon be coming to America!

Bruichladdich Distillery just announced they’ve made an organic single malt. What’s more, managing director Mark Reynier tells me this morning that their American labeling should be approved within a week, and bottles of the whisky will be available in stores and online soon after through [...]

Just got my hands (literally) on an advance copy of my book

UPS dude just delivered an advance copy of my organic cocktails book, Organic Shaken and Stirred. Looks fantastic (okay, my camera phone pic doesn’t do it justice so you’ll have to take my word for it). Wondering if I could expand the potential market for it by demonstrating how it also makes an excellent trivet or fix for [...]

A toast!

After more than a year of shaking, stirring and downing more drinks than my doctor needs to know about, I’m mightily excited that my book will soon be published. By soon, I mean October. It’s now July. Four months away. A third of a year. Yet in the book publishing world, this is but [...]