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Category: Food and Drink
Drinking with Children
The very first Christmas card showed a young child drinking mulled wine. It was 1843, the year Dickens’ Christmas Carol came out.
Black Wednesday Arriveth
I was going to play my Spotify "Garage Rock Elite" playlist, but it promises to be a more laid-back affair, so I might go with my "Mellow" list. We'll …
How We Can Still Celebrate Holiday Drinking in These Troubling Days?
The decadents think it’s a shortened version of “Black-out Wednesday,” but it’s not. It’s a play off “Black Friday,” which is “black” because retailers turn huge profits that day. …
I Don’t Love the Nightlife and I Don’t Got to Boogie
When I duck into the quiet bar and that door closes behind me, I’m shut off from the world. I then order a drink and get shut off from …
1,800 Pumpkin Beers Can’t be Wrong
Pumpkin beer in America goes back a long way. That 1985 pumpkin beer? It was apparently crafted from a recipe used by George Washington himself . . . he …
P.G. Wodehouse Referenced Booze . . . A Lot
With regard to booze, Wodehouse lived and worked in a far more relaxed world than today’s constipated politically-correct society and he exploited that boozy atmosphere to marvelously-amusing effect.
Brews You Can Use, Philosophy Corner, and a Short Story for Halloween
Booze Coke I don’t know if I’m surprised because it’s Coke or because it’s the first Coke product with alcohol: Coca-Cola launching its first alcoholic beverage next year. It’s going …
Friday
BYCU This was a heckuva coincidence. Thursday evening, I was flipping through vodka cocktail recipes on my Kindle during timeouts of my kids’ basketball games. I saw a reference …
Friday
Brews You Can Use I didn’t drink a whole bunch during the holidays, but I am on a diet with the aim of losing twenty pounds (to get my …
Thursday
Regular TDE readers know I’m not a big fan of New Years Eve. Well, that’s not exactly accurate. Relative to Thanksgiving Eve, I’m not a big fan of New …
Friday
My gift to you: The Holiday Tom. It’s my own concoction, though I know with virtual 100% certainty that it’s been made many, many times. It’s not very complicated …