By Pinky Gonzales Of course it is the week of Fat Tuesday and Lent, and the good city of New Orleans is on our minds and so are it’s drinks. LUPEC Boston’s column in this week’s Dig is on the Roffignac cocktail, a kind of elegant, no-frills, tasty highball. Its exact story is fuzzy, but [...]
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Raise a Roffignac to the Good City
Posted in cognac, highball, New Orleans, Uncategorized, Whiskey on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Total Pimm’s-sanity: Variations on a Pimm’s Cup Theme
Posted in New Orleans, Pimm's, Pimm's Cup on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Pink LadyIf you checked out this week’s LUPEC Boston column in the Weekly Dig you’re aware that creator James Pimm began to commercially produce his No. 1 Cup in 1851. The next century-plus saw the brand grow to include a total of six variations on the liqueur’s original theme – and a franchised chain [...]
The Storied Sazerac
Posted in Absinthe, angostura bitters, Herbsaint, New Orleans, Peychaud's, Ricard, Sazerac on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With half of LUPEC Boston in NOLA for the Tales of the Cocktail festival this week, it only seemed right to raise a glass to the Sazerac, the city’s official cocktail. It’s not just a tag line you know: last month the Louisiana House of Representatives proclaimed the Sazerac New Orleans’ official cocktail in a [...]
Oh When the Saints…
Posted in French Vermouth, Herbsaint, Italian Vermouth, New Orleans, Tales of the Cocktail on July 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The ladies of LUPEC Boston are gearing up for our annual excursion to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail. For five days we will be learning about everything from Shochu to sensory perception. And for five nights we will be eating, drinking and dancing at our favorite haunts. Sounds like something real close to [...]
Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!
Posted in Bitters, Bourbon, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today the streets of New Orleans are flooded with revelers for the culmination of Carnival, Mardi Gras. The city ‘s population has doubled as tourists have flooded in to scurry for beads and doubloons thrown from floats as krewes snake through the city. We, the ladies of LUPEC, would like to raise our glasses to [...]
It’s Carnival Time!
Posted in Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Benedictine, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when one of our favorite cities becomes a hot bed of fun! All over New Orleans tourists are swarming, costumes are being donned and krewes are lining up as Mardi Gras arrives! In honor of this annual celebration we want to introduce you to one of our favorite NOLA broads [...]
It’s Carnival Time!
Posted in Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Benedictine, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when one of our favorite cities becomes a hot bed of fun! All over New Orleans tourists are swarming, costumes are being donned and krewes are lining up as Mardi Gras arrives! In honor of this annual celebration we want to introduce you to one of our favorite NOLA broads [...]
It’s Carnival Time!
Posted in Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Benedictine, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when one of our favorite cities becomes a hot bed of fun! All over New Orleans tourists are swarming, costumes are being donned and krewes are lining up as Mardi Gras arrives! In honor of this annual celebration we want to introduce you to one of our favorite NOLA broads [...]
It’s Carnival Time!
Posted in Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Benedictine, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when one of our favorite cities becomes a hot bed of fun! All over New Orleans tourists are swarming, costumes are being donned and krewes are lining up as Mardi Gras arrives! In honor of this annual celebration we want to introduce you to one of our favorite NOLA broads [...]
It’s Carnival Time!
Posted in Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Benedictine, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when one of our favorite cities becomes a hot bed of fun! All over New Orleans tourists are swarming, costumes are being donned and krewes are lining up as Mardi Gras arrives! In honor of this annual celebration we want to introduce you to one of our favorite NOLA broads [...]


