absinthe
How One Bartender's Speakeasy Transformed New Orleans' Cocktail Scene
New Orleans hates change. If you want to update, modernize, renew, renovate, or re-imagine something, don’t. But one bartender has helped to innovate the contemporary cocktail scene for bartenders with a project that had illegal beginnings.
Webcam Eaters, Eyeball Smoothies, and the Other Edible News You Missed This Week
This week, we uncovered the mysteries of mukbang, ate macarons in Southeast Asia, perfected cooking with weed, and learned that you're making your tea wrong.
The French-Swiss Absinthe Route
In this episode of Al-Kee-Hol, we follow our host Dominique Rousake on a trip along the “Route de l’Absinthe”, the beautiful French-Swiss absinthe route.
Now Your Lungs Can Smoke Haute Cuisine
Aroma Vapologie inventor Eric Gormand has developed a luxury hookah that allows you to add flavors such as foie gras, Cognac, and truffle to your food via inhalation. Smoke up your lungs with truffles and Cognac.
The Eight Night Stand Recipe
This cocktail, like many tiki-style cocktails, is complex in its ingredients, but results in a wonderfully layered and delicious drink.
Stagger Lee Recipe
I associate Nick Cave with the color black, so black treacle rum is perfect in this murky, dark cocktail.
Joy Division Recipe
At Death + Co., we often name our cocktails after musical references. This is one of my favorites.
Next Level Absinthe Tripping Has Always Been Psychosomatic
Lofty 19th century Romantics were really into knocking back absinthe because they believed that it allowed them to transcend the mere mortals of this earth. Sadly, absinthe isn't actually hallucinogenic and any tripping was all in their heads.
Our Absinthe Orgy on a Cambodian Island Made the Spirits Mad
We just wanted to make love in the plankton.