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Cocktails – tasting notes and final listfoodpast.com » Food History - Oct 11, 2008 The cocktails for the Banquet were: Gernsbackian Dream - a copacetic martini style drink, the cat’s pyjamas Southern Nights Julep– Mint, champagne and fruit, iced to perfection, a julep that reaches the stars – … |
foodpast.com » Food History - Oct 6, 2008
It’s time! Today I give you the menu of the Prohibition banquet and the final drinks list. From then on you get recipes, including two cocktail recipes that didn’t quite make it but that you’ll love anyway and maybe …
Also tagged: menu, conflux 5, conflux banquet
foodpast.com » Food History - Oct 5, 2008
By the second meeting, we had moved on. The menu looked something like this: Menu: 1. cocktails with canapés (while mingling) Canapes: black olives, stuffed eggs, pim olas, nut and cheese relish 2. fruit cocktail (at …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Oct 4, 2008
Initially, the form of the menu looked like this: 1. cocktails with canapés (while mingling) 2. fruit cocktail (at table) 3. soup (1 clear soup, 1 vegetarian) 4. roast with vegetable (alternate main course for …
Also tagged: prohibition, prohibition banquet, conflux 5, conflux banquet
foodpast.com » Food History - Oct 3, 2008
Conflux is on and I’m not round. What do we do? Well, I was prepared for this. Starting from today, there’s a series of pre-posted blogposts about the banquet. All the background you ever wanted. The last post in the …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Sep 25, 2008
Over the next few days I’m involved in gustatory activity. In fact, it’s Jewish New Year very shortly. This year I wanted to give you a slightly different present for the season. It’s the first section of a book called …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Jul 6, 2008
At last, the end is near… We tasted twelve drinks. I have to remind myself of this because it all seems rather fuzzy now. After all, I have been home five hours. All of the drinks were the best of the best of the …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Jul 6, 2008
Continuing from the last post…. These are not the carefully annotated thoughts on balances of flavour and etc: they’re the funny stuff. They would have been even funnier if I had worked through the papers immediately …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Jul 6, 2008
Today, I got drunk. The rest of the committee got more or less drunk, depending on how many were driving and whether they had to pick up children after the meeting. In fact, only two of us made it all the way through …
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foodpast.com » Food History - Jul 3, 2008
This is the last post for the first round of tests. The final round (where we taste all the best and chose the best of the best) is on Sunday. After Sunday, we’re in the home stretch and I can stop causing inebriation …
Also tagged: drinks, cocktails, conflux, food history, testing cocktails