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Ardent Spirits e-letter
Volume 10, Issue 2, January 17, 2008
by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
© 2008 Reganomics, Inc.
In This Issue:
We received e-mail recently (thanks, Jackie) to tell us about
Brooke Arthur, a bartender at san Francisco's
Range restaurant, who was injured in a fire on New Year's Eve.
According to a web site that was launched to support Brooke, "[She] is
currently in the burn unit at the St. Francis Memorial Hospital in SF. There was
a fire in her apartment that started late Sunday night, the 31st of December.
The amazing firefighters from Station 41 found her on the fire escape."
A fundraiser was held on Monday night at
Cantina and according to the
Brooke Arthur web site it was a
resounding success. So much so that Brooke's family is no longer asking
for donations to help with medical bills.
At the time of writing pictures of the event at Cantina were due to be posted
to the web site today, Thursday, Jan 17.
Prayers go out to Brooke and her family for a swift
recovery.
The Cocktailian
image courtesy of the good folks at
quanya
Silent Monks Get the Last Word
January 4,
2008
"You gotta see 'Into Great Silence,' " a
friend e-mailed me recently, and since this guy has turned me onto some great
flicks in the past, I dutifully added his recommendation to my list on Netflix.
It arrived in mid-November . . .
This Cocktailian comes to you
courtesy of
Mae West Royal Diamond Fizze
West Diamond Champagne Fizz
by LeNell Smothers
I am
inspired by many sassy women from our American history. My own personality
beefs up when I read of bawdy chicks like Helen Cromwell who owned a saloon in
Milwaukee that ended up being called "Dirty Helen's" due to her foul mouth.
I love reading about larger than life female personalities like Texas Guinan who
ran speakeasies in New York during Prohibition. Then there is that
ever-so-sassy film star that rocked the world with her naughtiness...Ms. Mae
West . . .
Click
here for the full story, and the recipe,
of course.
LeNell's Ltd: a Wine and Spirit Boutique
416 Van Brunt Street Brooklyn, New York 11231
www.lenells.com
toll free 1 877 NO SNOBS
phone 718 360 0838
fax 718 874 2733
To subscribe to LeNell's email list, just drop her a
line here, and tell her we sent you,
wudja?
Hot Links
Robert Hess has been very busy since we last sent out a newsletter, so click the
various cocktails below to see him make them on the
Small Screen Network.
The Absinthe Drip
Irish Coffee
The Kir Royale
The French 75
A Cocktailian
Library/Champagne Flamingo
The
Champagne Cocktail
And if you'd like to see someone other than Robert mixing
drinks, pop over to NYMag.com
which brings you some
pretty videos of some great
Winter Cocktails From LeNell's (see the Alabama Red-Hooker herself making the
cocktail featured in her column above), Death & Co., and Flatiron Lounge (with the
ever lovely Julie Reiner). And yes, that damnable Phillip Ward is featured
in the Death & Co spot. Hi Phil!
This Hot Links column comes to you courtesy of
Potent Quotables
Dirty Tom McAlear
“Perhaps the lowest of the Sydney-Town dives were the
Boar's Head, where the principal attraction was a sexual exhibition in which a
woman and a boar participated; the Goat and Compass and the Golden Rule, both
owned by one Hell Haggerty, a ticket-of-leave man from Sydney; and the Fierce
Grizzly, so called because a live female bear was kept chained beside the door.
The Goat and Compass was the particular hang-out of a Sydney-Town character
known as Dirty Tom McAlear, who for a few cents would eat or drink any sort of
refuse offered to him."
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco
Underworld by Herbert Asbury, 1933.
This week's Potent Quotables comes to you courtesy of
Bar Code
Hats and Registers and Bartenders and Free Drinks
Can somebody help us out here? Our friend Nancy, a
woman we know from our days on the Upper East Side in the 70s, wrote recently to
ask if we remembered something about everyone at the bar getting a free drink if
a bartender passed the register while wearing a hat. Or does the register
wear the hat and everyone at the bar gets to buy the bartender a drink? We
can't remember exactly how this worked. Best answer gets a Regans' Orange
Bitters T-shirt.
Write to
we@ardentspirits.com
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