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Article: Woodford reserve.(MIXTAPE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief ...
The Fader;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Have you ever had a drink in an airport? I haven't. Haters can hate, but it always struck me as an awful idea. Like, you know what would be awesome right now? Drinking some whiskey and then getting on a plane and sitting down for five to six hours straight. Party central in seat 13B! But if I were

Article: Veev.(GP: MIXTAPE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief article)
The Fader;  September 1, 2009 ;     520 words ...Sadly, the iPhone has totally killed the art of pulling random facts out of one's ass. Nowadays I can barely get a half-baked proclamation out of my mouth before some touchscreen-wielding loser has googled me to it. RIP, my imagination! I did know for a fact, prior to anyone e-confirming it, that

Article: Prairie vodka.(MIXTURE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief ...
The Fader;  December 1, 2008 ;     575 words ...So maybe I've been a bit of an American vodka hater in the past, but adding the magic word "organic" changes everything. First of all, organic implies healthy (poison and medicate me all in one go and secondly, people that make organic produce tend to have big hearts and generally wouldn't want to

Article: Tortuga rum.(MIXTAPE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief article)
The Fader;  July 1, 2009 ;     585 words ...There's a place in the Cayman Islands called Seven-Mile Beach, a picture-postcard type stretch of sand where I chilled for pretty much my entire vacation. By day three, I started to get restless and went in search of authentic island flavor rather than the sunset sailing tours and swimming with

Article: Arizona spring thyme.(MIXTAPE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief ...
The Fader;  July 1, 2009 ;     533 words ...I had to call NYC mixologist Nicolas O'Connor to unpuzzle the Arizona Spring Thyme recipe he invented, because the instructions called for "igniting zest," "edible flowers" and "thyme syrup," which sound like R. Kelly metaphors for doing it. He explained how to execute these maneuvers over the

Article: Hornitos Plata tequila.(MIXTAPE: DRANKY ...
The Fader;  July 1, 2009 ;     458 words ...I'm gonna be totally honest here, I just cooked some ramps--wild, very seasonal sweet onion root type things--and they were killer. I usually eat out/take in, but I was feeling uppity. I sauteed while watching The Real Housewives o f New York reunion, and these women are really harsh (except

Article: Ardbeg Whiskey.(GP: MIXTAPE: DRANKY DRANKS)(Brief ...
The Fader;  May 1, 2008 ;     568 words ...I like to pretend that I am a whiskey connoisseur, but really I just drink what is given to me until I start to like it. Last night I sat down with a glass of Ardbeg and watched No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, he was in Ghana and he talked about highlife music while I drank whiskey that