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Local for Love Event with Somerville First

Posted in Cocktails, Events, Green Chartreuse, St-Germain on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Local for Love Event at Poor Little Rich Girl last night! The event was sponsored by Somerville Local First and featured treats from Taza Chocolate, Ball Square Fine Wines & Liquors, Narragansett beer, and a few fun cocktails poured by the ladies of LUPEC Boston. Our table was [...]

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A Bubble Bath for Two

Posted in angostura bitters, Bitters, Bourbon, Champagne, Cocktails, Cointreau, Peychaud's, Uncategorized, Weekly Dig on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and folks are clamoring for reservations at romantic locales all about town.  With the state of the economy and the big event falling on a Saturday many, however, may be choosing to spend the night at home.  That would be my choice as nothing is dearer to me than [...]

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Punch Party TONIGHT at GRAND

Posted in Broads, Charity, Cocktails, Events, tagged on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

From 7 pm-10 pm tonight we’ll be hosting another fabulous punch party at your new favorite boutique, GRAND [374 Somerville Ave, Union Square, Somerville]. The event will be a fabulous night of holiday shopping with the Ladies of LUPEC! Enjoy some festive seasonal (and complimentary!) cocktails like Hot Toddies and Single Malt Sangaree as you [...]

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Speakeasy Days

Posted in Broads, Women's History, Cocktails, Cocktail History, Texas Guinan, Weekly Dig, column, 75th Anniversary of Prohibition's Repeal on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With the 75th Anniversary of Prohibition’s Repeal upon us, the ladies of LUPEC turn our thoughts to late, great Prohibition-era forebroads like Texas Guinan. We wrote a brief bio of the little devil in this week’s Dig; to read more about this actress-turned-Speakeasy-owner, check out Pinky Gonzales’ Women’s History Month toast on Tex. Here are [...]

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Veterans Day Cocktails

Posted in brandy, Broads, Cocktails, Eggs, lemon juice, sloe gin, Women's History on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The ladies of LUPEC Boston are thrilled to honor the hundreds of thousands of forebroads who’ve served this country as volunteers during times of war. We’ve written about the Hello Girls of World War I and the Clubmobile girls of World War II, and later this week we’ll talk about the entertainers who traveled to [...]

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One Nation, Under Cocktail

Posted in Bourbon, brandy, Broads, Champagne, Cocktails, Cointreau, daiquiri, President Madison's Favorite Whiskey Sours, Raspberry Shrub, Roman Punch, Rum, Whiskey, Women's History on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The 2008 election has come and gone, and wasn’t it enough to drive anyone to drink? In this week’s Dig column, we suggested whipping up a batch of Martha Washington’s Rum Punch to muddle through that post-election hangover. (You can read more about the punch here.) Here’s a list of some other Presidential favorites from [...]

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Luscious Liqueurs and Party Snacks with AJ Rathbun

Posted in AJ Rathbun, Broads, cocktail books, Cocktails on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In the context of the infinite cyber-sphere, the Internet cocktail community seems comparatively home-y. Thus we were thrilled to hear that Seattle-based cocktail blogger and author AJ Rathbun would be in Boston promoting his recently released titles, LUSCIOUS LIQUEURS and PARTY SNACKS, this week. We’d only ever met AJ through blog cross posts and track [...]

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LUPEC Launches the Second Edition of the Little Black Book of Cocktails with a Shindig at GRAND

Posted in Charity, Cocktails, Events, Little Black Book of Cocktails, New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The Second Edition of the Little Black Book of Cocktails is hot off the presses. We’ll be celebrating in style on October 21st from 6:00pm-9:00pm at the coolest boutique north of the Mason Dixon line, GRAND [374 Somerville Ave, Union Square, Somerville] for our Little Black Book of Cocktails “Relaunch Party”! Sip on some delicious [...]

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This One’s for the Ladies 2008

Posted in Broads, Cocktails, Fundraiser, This One's for the Ladies on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Join the ladies of LUPEC Boston as we raise our glasses to raise awareness! Starting November 1, LUPEC Boston will partner will select Boston-area bars and restaurants to offer our Second Annual “This One’s for the Ladies” drink promotion. Participating establishments will be donating the proceeds from one broad-related beverage for the month of November [...]

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Ferneducation

Posted in Bitters, Cocktails, Hanky Panky, Rye, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »

This week in the Dig I wrote a brief history of the cult favorite Fernet Branca.  If you are new to the world of Fernet having an entire bottle sitting on your shelf can seem a bit daunting, to say the least.  You’ve choked down a few shots in an attempt to be part of the [...]

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