Never a drink
that made him blink
A.J. Rathbun is a 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 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 23, 2024
Cocktail Talk: Hell Has No FuryFletcher Flora is a last-century pulp/pocket book/noir/mystery/etc. writer who perhaps in my humble opinion (or imho, as they say) hasn’t always gotten his due as being in the upper echelon of such writers. He has, in his best work, an…
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July 19, 2024
What I’m Drinking: The PalexanderYou know, you can’t have desserts every day. Well, maybe you can! But for me, that’s a waistline-bursting situation. So, on those dessert skipping days, I try to just have a nice dessert drink (haha). Of course, my first choice…
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July 12, 2024
What I’m Drinking: The Good Things Should be Praised HighballI recently created a drink to be auctioned off at the Seattle Shakespeare Co. charity auction, and used the play they’re performing this summer, The Two Gentleman of Verona, as the lift-off point for said drink. I also wrote a…