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Feels Like the Very First Time

Posted in angostura bitters, Bitters, Bourbon, Bourbon Belle, brandy, Cocktails, Cointreau, French Vermouth, Gin, gincident, Grenadine, Hanky Panky, lemon juice, Mixology Monday, Pink Gin, Pink Lady, Pinky Gonzales, Plymouth gin, Rye, Scoff Law, Uncategorized, Vermouth, Whiskey, tagged on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

LUPEC Boston is honored to be hosting today’s Mixology Monday at our humble abode.  Inspired by a chance encounter that Pink Lady had with a cocktail novice, we’ve decided to consider those cocktails that would be suitably delicious for the first timer. Obviously there are a couple things to consider when offering up advice to [...]

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Martini time

Posted in Vermouth, Weekly Dig, tagged , , , , , , , on January 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

by Pink Lady “The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.” – Bernard De Voto Yes, we are talking about vermouth again, both here and in our column in The Weekly Dig. I’ll admit, the [...]

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Orange Bitters and the Orange Roof

Posted in French 75, Gin, HoJos, Negroni, Uncategorized, Vermouth on October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »

by Pink Gin This week in the Dig I offered up a road-trip version of the classic martini and I have a few little baubles to add… More on ingredients for the “HoJotini” We’re using Beefeater gin, Noilly Prat vermouth, and Angustora orange bitters that we got through bartering on the black market. Fees Orange [...]

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Stocking Your Bar with the Basics – One Cocktail at a Time

Posted in angostura bitters, Bitters, Cocktails, column, David Wondrich, Gin, Hanky Panky, Hearst, Hibiscus, Italian Vermouth, lime juice, Orange Bitters, Orange Juice, Pinky Gonzales, Rum, Rye, Trader Vic, Vermouth, Ward Eight, Weekly Dig on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

by Pink Lady Hanky Panky’s column in this week’s Dig advocates building your home bar on a cocktail by cocktail basis: each week, choose a favorite cocktail and purchase the items necessary to mix it at home. With this method, you will never be left wondering what you can mix with the items you have [...]

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Hello, sucker!

Posted in Broads, Chartreuse, Grenadine, lemon juice, Mae West, Orange Bitters, Scoff Law, Texas Guinan, Vaudeville, Vermouth, Whiskey, Women's History on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

by Pinky Gonzales …This was the standard greeting you’d likely receive from the jovial, peroxide blonde manning the house at one of several Manhattan speakeasies during Prohibition. Of course, this would foreshadow the spending of all your dough, on illegal hooch and tips for the showgirls. You’d happily fork over $25 (back then no chump [...]

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Going to the Chapel!

Posted in Apricot Brandy, Contessa, Gin, Orange Bitters, Vermouth, weddings on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today was a big day for the ladies of LUPEC Boston. No, it’s not because we’re so excited about Women’s History Month starting tomorrow we can’t even stand it! It’s because one of LUPEC Boston’s very own tied the knot today! That’s right, today Miss Contessa became a Mrs. She and her beloved just couldn’t [...]

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By Jove! Now That’s The Real Hanky-Panky

Posted in Ada Coleman, Cinzano Rosso, Fernet Branca, Gin, Hanky Panky, Vermouth, Women's History on February 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »

by Pinky Gonzales Ada Coleman, American Bar, London Hanky-Panky (n. slang) Various definitions from the Oxford English to the American Heritage Dictionaries include “questionable or underhanded activity”, “sexual dalliance”, “trickery, double-dealings”, shenanigans”, “hocus-pocus”. I like the Hanky-Panky. It’s got a great backstory, mysterious etymology, association with our president (LUPEC Boston’s that is, not the doofball [...]

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Atten-Hut!

Posted in Absinthe, Cocktails, Creme de Violette, Gin, Mixology Monday, Variations, Vermouth on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s Mixology Monday again! This month we are, with our host Jimmy’s Cocktail Hour, exploring Variations. Here in Boston the ladies of LUPEC have been very excited with the recent availability of the Rothman and Winter Creme de Violette. It’s always thrilling to have a new product available, but in this case this is a [...]

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Pearl Rivers

Posted in Absinthe, Benedictine, Bitters, Broads, Cocktails, New Orleans, Rye, Vermouth on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Born in 1849 in Pearlington along the Mississippi River, Eliza Jane Poitevent became the first woman owner and publisher of a major daily newspaper in the United States, the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Eliza began her career as a poet under the pen name Pearl Rivers. In 1870 she was offered the position as literary editor [...]

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The Cradle of the Cocktail and the Women Who Rocked It!

Posted in Absinthe, Bitters, Cocktails, Gin, New Orleans, Rye, Vermouth on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last night the lovely ladies of LUPEC Boston gathered at the home of Pinky Gonzalez to raise our glasses to the women of New Orleans. We nibbled on Shrimp “Arnaud,” fried okra, fried oysters, jalapeno cornbread, and “Bananas in Jackets”/”Nuts in Sticks.” And we washed it all down with the following delicious cocktails! Pimm’s Cup [...]

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