More on where to get green and/or organic cocktails in L.A.

LA Green Living Examiner Angela DeVore does a nifty round-up

NBC New York segment on summer cocktail books…

… includes mine. Thanks to ya’ll at Behind the Burner for showcasing it!

The Green Bar among “50 amazing mixology blogs” – which is, well, amazing.

Thanks to the gracious Anna Miller for including me among these clearly superior mixologists and bloggers…

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 [...]

Are wine grapes among best barometers of climate change?

Nifty (if troubling) piece in Slate looking at whether grapes are the proverbial canaries in the coalmine for global warming.

Republican National Committee into organic cocktails?!

Holy smokes, I may have misjudged these folks.

Smorgasbite reviews Organic Shaken and Stirred

Undeserved but much appreciated praise for my book from uber-foodies at Smorgasbite

Yet another organic vodka coming… this summer?

Blackleaf Premium Organic Vodka is apparently coming this summer… from France. Now, I’m a fan of vodka – don’t get me wrong – but how about some more organic gins, rums, etc.? Pretty please.

And what’s with the curious cache of vodkas produced in France? What’s good for the GreyGoose is good for…?

Organic Spa Mag’s Ellen Swandiak kindly includes my book in her column

Booze on Wheels

The New York Times heralds the return of the bar cart in one of its I-found-three-people-who-are-doing-it-so-it’s-a-trend features (wait, I use that gambit all the time!).  I’ll cop to wanting such a contraption, but with bottles crammed in just about every cabinet in the house except the bathroom (yet), I’m going to need the equivalent of Jerr-Dan.  Still, [...]