•previously posted in DigBoston by Pink Lady Amelia Earhart was already famous when she set out for her first solo flight across the Atlantic on May 20, 1932. She made headlines as the first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight four years earlier in 1928. The widely publicized event skyrocketed Earhart to international fame, earning [...]
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LUPEC: A TOAST TO LADY LINDY’S MAIDEN VOYAGE
Posted in Applejack, Blue Skies, Gin, Uncategorized on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
LUPEC: LADIES OF THE WORLD, UNITE
Posted in Applejack, Cocktails, Eggs, Gin, Grenadine, lemon juice, Pink Lady, Plymouth gin, Women's History on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
*previously posted on March 9, 2012 in DigBoston International Women’s Day is upon us, dear readers! The March 8th holiday isn’t something we celebrate with much gusto here in the states, but it’s celebrated heartily in other corners of the world. We first learned about Women’s Day from an ex-pat friend who lives in Italy, where [...]
LUPEC: NATIONAL HOT TODDY DAY
Posted in Applejack, Cocktails, Hot Drinks, Hot Toddy, Maker's Mark, Yuzu, Yuzu Toddy on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As posted on January 6, 2012 in DigBoston LUPEC ladies love randomly decreed holidays devoted to drinking. Whether they are the clever marketing ploys or an act of Congress (i.e. National Bourbon Month), we care not. Give us a reason to raise a glass and you bet your ass we will. On January 11th National Hot [...]
Dead or Alive: The Sour Apple Martini
Posted in Applejack, pucker, Tales of the Cocktail on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On August 15, the DeKuyper(R) brand announced the bottling of its five millionth case of DeKuyper Pucker(R) Sour Apple, the neon green key ingredient in that “iconic” cocktail, the Appletini. Little did they know that to leading mixologists and cocktail aficionados , the Sour Apple Martini is officially dead. The Sour Apple Martini was declared [...]
The Pink Lady Cocktail
Posted in Applejack, column, Eggs, Gin, Grenadine, lemon juice, Pink Lady, Weekly Dig on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
by Pink Lady Hopefully you all caught the debut of the LUPEC Boston column in this week’s issue of The Weekly Dig. As promised, here’s a little more info on our favorite recipe for the Pink Lady, and a few notes on why I thought it an appropriate choice as the very first cocktail for [...]
March is Women’s History Month!
Posted in Applejack, Rum, Toro, Women's History on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
March is Women’s History Month and the ladies of LUPEC Boston could not be more thrilled! Thru March 31st we’ll be offering you as many reasons to raise a glass to unsung women in history as this group of ambitious, classic cocktail-obsessed broads can cobble together…while maintaining our full-time jobs and going about the general [...]
The Speed Queen
Posted in Applejack, Broads, Cocktails, Gin on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier. Piloting a Canadair F-86 Sabre that she had borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Jacqueline took off from Rogers Dry Lake, California and flew at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour. Cochran’s career in aviation began [...]


