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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June 17, 2025
Cocktail Talk: The Dancing GirlThis is another Cocktail Talk found in an older mystery story featured within one of the wonderful British Library Crime Classics collections (you can read more by perusing past British Library Crime Classic Cocktail Talks, a phrase rather fun to…
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June 13, 2025
What I’m Drinking: Mrs. Solomon Wears SlacksI tend not to be a big fan of sugar, salt, spice, etc. on the rim of a cocktail glass when I’m drinking a cocktail. I don’t get all upset about it if I have such, cause drinking oughta be…
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June 3, 2025
Cocktail Talk: The Wrong VenusThe Blue Train cocktail recipe below, had me thinking of Cointreau (hey, that sounds like the first line in a sweet swing-style song, one of the sadder ones, probably all about lost love and travel and reading Charles Williams books),…
