The Cel-Ray Collins

The Cel-Ray Collins 2 oz Gin (I used Cold River Traditional) 1/2 Lime cut into wedges 2 teaspoons Turbinado Sugar 2 dashes Fee Brothers Celery Bitters 4 oz Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Celery Soda Muddle the lime wedges, bitters and sugar in a cocktail shaker. Add ice...

Perception and Presentation

How things are presented affect how they are perceived. Take something like offal. Pretty delicious but there are a lot of skeptics. Why? Because it’s animal organs, and that’s weird. We can all agree that honey is wonderful, but at the end of the day...

Souvenirs

Some people bring home trinkets and T-Shirts. We bring home food. Here’s what we made room in the van for. 4 pounds of Geechie Boy Grits (2 white, 2 yellow) 4 pounds of Carolina Gold Rice 24 bottles of Blenheim Gingerale (75% of them hot) a case of Cheerwine 3...

Sometimes the End Resembles the Beginning

Today I was working on desserts. One of my components was a beer syrup. I took a lager, added sugar and heated it until it reduced to a thick syrup. It was sweet and malty, and goes well with our desserts. But today I noticed something. I’m a home brewer and...