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Aged cocktails are becoming de rigueur at most any upper-end cocktail bar you might happen upon. The theory being that the aging process melds and mellows the flavors of the cocktail’s constituent ingredients. And it does, as evidenced after savoring a Liberal at Canon, Seattle’s world-class paean to whisky and bitters. With the edges hewn offContinue reading “Age Before Beauty”

The art of the cocktail and lounge menu…

My grandmother and me, around 1966. She and I would make pies in her large country-style kitchen, which is where food started for me. “Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.”Continue reading

Beat the heat with a delightfully crunchy and piquant quick carrot pickle. Use the freshest pickling spice you can find, not the bottle of it that’s been sitting on your spice shelf for a couple years. You’ll be happy you did; the clove and allspice really wake up your taste buds! I served these atContinue reading “In a Pickle”

See you all Tuesday!

(The Gibson, slaking discerning thirsts since 1922)

A hint of Hawaii, touch of tiki…