Liquid

June 2008 - Posts

Love Potions: eat, drink, and be horny

by Sara Faith Alterman | June 23, 2008

How many times have you had drunk sex? I don’t mean lingered over a bottle of Bordeaux at dinner with your sweetheart before scampering home to make saccharin, chick-flick-style love to your soulmate. I’m talking raw passion, fueled by the heat of the... Read More »

Twist: ginger snap

by Tamara Wieder | June 23, 2008

Just when you thought ginger couldn’t get any more appealing than an island castaway, along comes Domaine de Canton , billed as the world’s first ginger liqueur (not to mention one of the prettiest liquor bottles on the market). Developed by Maurice Cooper... Read More »

Bottled up: on magnums, flutes, and goat scrotums

by Thor Iverson | June 23, 2008

I’ll never forget my first magnum. It was in Alsace, and after a particularly lengthy tasting, the owner offered a gift: an oversized container of his house’s best riesling. The traditional Alsatian bottle is called a flute: taller than average, thin... Read More »

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Twist: gin city

by Heather Bouzan | June 13, 2008

We have a friend who never drinks gin — apparently it brings out the no-holds-barred bitch in her. Perhaps that’s just because she can’t hold her booze, but we wonder if it has something to do with the spirit’s sometimes-harsh taste profile. A new gin... Read More »

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Match game

by Thor Iverson | June 13, 2008

Playing with your antisocial food Like alcoholic dinner guests, there are foods that bring their personal problems to the table. They might be perfectly charming in isolation, but in the presence of drink, asking them to play nicely with others leads... Read More »

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Lighten up

by Sara Faith Alterman | June 13, 2008

Put down the Negroni and have a little fun with a kitschy cocktail. We sure can take ourselves seriously in this town, can’t we? Our fashion, our food, our art, our sports— sometimes Bostonians seem so insecure in the shadow of urban behemoths like New... Read More »

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