Jared Brown

Spicy? Sooo not Cuban

That moment when you mean to hit ❤️ on WhatsApp and get 🤣 instead

Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92 He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”

Many artists have changed the course of my life, but if my dad hadn’t inexplicably given me a copy of “Another Roadside Attraction” in my youth, I don’t know what I’d be today. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Bob was my constant garden companion for three years. European robins are tiny compared to American robins

referred to splashing seltzer with white wine. So, by definition I would say spritz has to have wine. In practice? Make (or market) a drink good enough, you can call it whatever you want and people will drink it. And only we who really care will be annoyed

Stash and I first encountered the A Spritz in Verona years ago. Every cafe table around the coliseum seemed to have a couple in it. We found a backstreet local bar and got the owner to teach us. His had white wine, Prosecco, A, and ice. And spritz comes from the German ‘spritzen’ to splash which 1/2

When Tabi won’t come out from under the sheepskin, it’s time to turn up the heat

Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 468 contr Anistatia Miller, Jared Brown

The Mimosa

variation on the Buck’s fizz, a simple combination of chilled champagne and orange juice, is attributed to Frank Meier at the Ritz in Paris, 1925. Is one of the quintessential brunch drinks in the US

Tested and retested… The Savoy is truly worth visiting

I count only 55 drinks here. Are there more pages?

4am I came downstairs and they had a mouse trapped under a shoe rack in the kitchen. This evening, a wren flew around in the house for ten minutes leading them upstairs and down. I managed to usher both wild fur and feathers out unharmed. It was a big day for cats.

(Dubonnet. Cocchi has not reformulated)

The new reformulation is gorgeous!

Cocchi Torino makes a wildly good Gin & It. Gin & Dubonnet is another must

Does this include fresh celery? It’s one of the few veggies Stash dislikes and she’d be thrilled

Cheers!

Let’s settle this: books are far from obsolete. In fact, they’re thriving—timeless companions in a fast-moving world.

Stonehenge is an hour down the road. Been there once? Twice? Still haven’t visited Gloucester Cathedral.

I’m jealous of the sumac in US shops (and fields and gardens). In the UK and Europe, commercial sumac comes from North Africa and is salted, intended mostly as a poultry seasoning. So, it doesn’t work in drinks.

Cheers!

We are beyond proud to announce that our book A Most Noble Water has been placed on the long list for the prestigious André Simon Food and Drink Awards for 2024, and made the Times of London’s list of the top ten food and drink books of 2024!

Rum and umeshu. Soooo good!

This North Beach dive should arguably be the most famous bar in SF The history of La Rocca's Corner spans more than 100 years, back to Prohibition, and includes everything from SF society meet-cutes to a suspected mob hit.

“This North Beach dive should arguably be the most famous bar in San Francisco

SFGATE dive bar columnist Broke-Ass Stuart investigates the long and fascinating saga of La Rocca's Corner”

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And of course there are minis of Mini

Tiny bottles… perhaps Thanos Prunaris at Baba au Rhum, or Alex (can’t remember his last name 😳) whose family owns the A for Athens hotel

A for Athens, Baba au Rhum, Clumsies, Line. Many more. Such a great cocktail scene in Athens.
Ouzo? Okay, but also don’t miss the tsiporo.
Go to O Thanasis for kebabs.

A scammer called pretending to be from O2, offering 40% off my mobile service. He didn’t realise he called me last week. This time I was ready. I shouted for 5 minutes making up complaints, demanding he look into them, before hanging up on him. I’d have gone longer but #O2 has actually been great

Except no one goes to a bar for a drink. You go to a bar for the experience of being in that bar. Put two gas stations side by side. One charges 25% more than the other, and is out of business in a year. Put a liquor store near a bar. One charges waaaay more than the other per measure, both thrive

Still processing news that dear friend, mentor Francine Cohen died suddenly yesterday. Reading texts fr days ago re her first wine byline in Better Homes & Garden, feeling great to know it was hers, helped get that kind of writing into mainstream.

Very typical. She was a connector and visionary.