A CFIT Cocktail — The Burnt Fuselage
CFIT is an aviation acronym that stands for “controlled flight into terrain.” It’s a benign sounding term for a catastrophic…
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Day Drinking For Witty People — The Algonquin
The Algonquin Round Table was not a table. It was a rotating group of clever people in the literary and…
The Bitch Is Dead — The Vesper
“The bitch is dead” — this is how James Bond describes the demise of Vesper Lynd, the girl who broke…
For Kings And Queens — The Royalist
As an American, the concept of royalty is foreign (literally and metaphorically) to me. There have been great kings and…
For Your Inner Rule Breaker — The Scofflaw
The Scofflaw is unusual in that both the word and the cocktail originated during Prohibition. In 1923 a Boston newspaper…
Shaken Not Stirred — The James Bond Martini
Martini, Vodka Martini. This is 007’s cocktail. Of course, martinis predated the literary and cinematic franchise that Ian Fleming spawned. …