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).

Let’s get this organic cocktails book launch party started right!

Somer Perez, the lovely and ridiculously talented mixologist and founder of NYC-based cocktails consultancy Couture Cocktail Concepts, will be at the launch party for my organic cocktails book next Thursday in Tampa. Besides classing up the event by, well, just being there, she’ll demonstrate how to make her crazy-good drink, Lunacy.

Come celebrate publication of Organic, Shaken and Stirred, my book about organic cocktails!

Please join me in celebrating the publication of Organic, Shaken and Stirred, my new book about organic cocktails.

Oh, and enjoy some drinks from the book!

When: Thursday, October 15, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Where: Restaurant BT (in Tampa’s Old Hyde Park Village), 1633 West Snow Ave., Tampa, FL 33606 US

For advance reservations ($30 includes a copy [...]

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 [...]

New organic spirits popping up like bar flies

When I started noodling around several years ago with cocktails made from organic ingredients, there were a handful of spirits certified organic. These days, I seem to run across new ones about every month. Here’s an organic distillery I only learned about today – Bainbridge Organic Distillers, located on that preposterously picturesque island just off [...]