Never a drink
that made him blink
A.J. Rathbun is a mostly-retired freelance food and entertaining writer and poet and the author of Ginger Bliss and Violet Fizz, Good Spirits (winner of an IACP Cookbook award), Dark Spirits, Wine Cocktails, Luscious Liqueurs, and more yet. Additionally, he has been a guest on the Everyday Food program (Martha Stewart Living/Sirius satellite radio) and other shows, for years was the cocktail columnist for Seattle Magazine, and has contributed to culinary and entertainment magazines such as Sip, Every Day with Rachael Ray, The Food Network Magazine, Real Simple, Eating Well,and Wine Enthusiast, and… more yet. But you can read more about all of that right here.
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July 9, 2025
Cocktail Talk: Ballgame, An American Who Watched British Mysteries NovelNot but a few mysterious weeks ago, I had a Cocktail Talk featuring a book called The American Who Watched British Mysteries, a cozy mystery whose title vaguely sounds like me (as I watch and love British television mysteries incessantly).…
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July 4, 2025
What I’m Drinking: The Suspended PalaceSometimes, I sit and think, “what a world we’re living in.” Sometimes I think that for sad reasons, but I try to balance it out by thinking that for happy reasons – one of those reasons being the widely, wildly,…
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June 24, 2025
Cocktail Talk: The American Who Watched British MysteriesWell, here’s a jolly good mystery read, if I do say so myself (hehe). In The American Who Watched British Mysteries, by the book police Detective Marlowe is investigating the strangulation death of Lucy Dixon, beginning the case by interviewing…
