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I’m current curled up in my travelodge room in central London fighting off the makings of a cold as I prepare for a radio recording session this afternoon.
I’ll be heading over to the Smooth FM studios to do a feature on entertaining at home over Christmas. Fortunately this one isn’t live, I say this one, [...]
This month Doug at The Pegu Blog is hosting Mixology Monday and as usual it is our task, as fellow bloggers, to come up with drink recipes so that we can all laugh at each other.
Doug’s theme is Made From Scratch and what an awesome theme! - Particularly for me, because I absolutely love making [...]
Over the last month i’ve been fortunate enough to take on the additional role as the Smirnoff Black (as featured in The Quantum of Solace - seriously, check out the bar in Haiti) Ambassador for the UK. This means I get to drive an Aston Martin… Ok it doesn’t really, but it does mean that [...]
I’ve been working hard to sort out the much neglected Cocktail Section of the website. After taking a long hard look at it and realising that it was really only some recipes pasted into a long list, the OCD took over.
So, what we now have is a neat title page listing cocktails by individual spirits. [...]
I’ve been working on this one for quite some time now, much more substantial than the Rum Timeline and hopefully just as interesting.
Origin of the name
Abbreviation from the dutch jenever (jenever, jeniever, juneva, genever, genevrer… etc.), the spirit from which gin evolved. Jenever itself thought to come from the french word for juniper: genévrier.
For anyone who reads other blogs to do with drink and specifically cocktails, Mixology Monday will probably be nothing new to you. I have been following the progress of MxMo for the last year with great interest and I have to say it is a brilliant idea.
The way it works is this: Once a month [...]