by Pinky Gonzales March 30th, beginning at 9:00pm @: Toro 1704 Washington St South End, Boston, MA 02118 (617) 536-4300 toro-restaurant.com Come down for a fashionably late-hour toast to Women’s History Month (March), some great sips from local sponsors, and to get your copy of our brand-spanking new Little Black Book of Cocktails, featuring the [...]
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LUPEC Boston is throwing a party-fundraiser this Sunday so come on down!
Posted in Women's History, Cocktail History, Events, St-Germain on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Coffee and Doughnuts
Posted in Aunt Kay, Broads, Charity, Women's History, World War II on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
During World War II American Red Cross services were in high gear. By the wars end in 1945, over 7.5 million volunteers supported 40,000 paid Red Cross staff around the world. “Nearly every family in America contained a member who had either served as a Red Cross volunteer, made contributions of money or blood, or [...]
The Hello Girls
Posted in Broads, Champagne, Cocktails, Gin, Women's History on November 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In 1917 General “Black Jack” Pershing began his search for bilingual switchboard operators to improve communication between commanders and troops on the European front. The women needed to speak French, be college educated and single. Over 7000 women applied and 450 were selected. Upon completion of military and Signal Corps training at Camp Franklin Maryland [...]
Amendment XIX
Posted in Bitters, Cocktails, Gin, Pastis, Women's History on June 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On this date in 1919 Congress proposed the 19th amendment which, upon ratification, would guarantee women the right to vote. The history of the suffragist movement began in 1848 at the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. In 1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. [...]
Mother’s Day Proclamation
Posted in Cocktails, Gin, Women's History on May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.” Blood does not wipe out dishonor, Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, Let women [...]
Operation Frontline Dinner and Petticoat Row
Posted in Charity, Cocktails, Women's History on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to all who attended the tenth annual Operation Frontline Dinner at Tremont 647 last week! Also a huge thank you to Matt Lambo and Triple Eight Distillery for donating the delicious Triple Eight Cranberry Vodka that the ladies of LUPEC used to make the Petticoat Row! If you weren’t able to attend, but [...]
The 35th Boston Marathon for Ladies
Posted in Broads, Cocktails, Rum, Women's History on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Begun in 1897, the Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world’s most prestigious road racing events. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer, who had registered as “K. V. Switzer”, was the first woman to run with a race number. She was a 20- year-old Syracuse University junior who wanted [...]
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