Camper English
@alcademics.bsky.social
Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours.
https://www.alcademics.com
https://www.alcademics.com
It’s easy enough to bring my own bag to the store and to use my own brain instead of AI most of the time. That feels like the same thing to me.
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
It’s easy enough to bring my own bag to the store and to use my own brain instead of AI most of the time. That feels like the same thing to me.
the SF Chronicle is hiring a food reporter, I assume because Elena Kadvany took the Associate F&W Editor job that had been open a long time and this was her former gig.
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Food Reporter
The San Francisco Chronicle seeks a reporter to lead the conversation on Bay Area restaurant industry news, including major openings, closings and trends, and to write discourse-defining features abou...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
the SF Chronicle is hiring a food reporter, I assume because Elena Kadvany took the Associate F&W Editor job that had been open a long time and this was her former gig.
eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Last night at Omnivore Books with @davidwondrich.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Last night at Omnivore Books with @davidwondrich.bsky.social
Christmas bars are starting to feel desperate to me. I already know of 5 this year in SF.
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Christmas bars are starting to feel desperate to me. I already know of 5 this year in SF.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Giving away a copy of this book to a newsletter subscriber soon. alcademics.com/alcademics-n...
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Giving away a copy of this book to a newsletter subscriber soon. alcademics.com/alcademics-n...
I made cards for my little history tours.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I made cards for my little history tours.
I will also decline to reconsider gay marriage BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE OF YOU TO ASK
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I will also decline to reconsider gay marriage BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE OF YOU TO ASK
I am adding an evening tour the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and another on Black Friday in the afternoon.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I am adding an evening tour the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and another on Black Friday in the afternoon.
www.airbnb.com/experiences/...
www.airbnb.com/experiences/...
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“Whatever could be causing a loneliness epidemic?” you ask the internet, sitting in a driverless car wearing headphones that you never take off in public, as an anonymous shopper makes contactless delivery of your meal kits using the keypad entry of your condo atop empty ground floor retail space
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Whatever could be causing a loneliness epidemic?” you ask the internet, sitting in a driverless car wearing headphones that you never take off in public, as an anonymous shopper makes contactless delivery of your meal kits using the keypad entry of your condo atop empty ground floor retail space
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This Wednesday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and God knows what else with the ever-amusing @alcademics.bsky.social at the wonderful @omnivorebooks.bsky.social, San Francisco. Hope to see yinz there!
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This Wednesday I'll be chatting about cocktails, comics and God knows what else with the ever-amusing @alcademics.bsky.social at the wonderful @omnivorebooks.bsky.social, San Francisco. Hope to see yinz there!
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
do job-having people in the US get Thanksgiving week off or just Thursday/Friday?
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
do job-having people in the US get Thanksgiving week off or just Thursday/Friday?
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I wrote about everyone’s favorite topic: how ice cubes are made.
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The Surprising Process Behind Those Crystal-Clear Ice Cubes in Your Rocks Glass
At cocktail bars around the world, crystal-clear ice cubes have become a status symbol. But many don't realize the journey those cubes take before ending up in a rocks glass. Follow the journey of coc...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I wrote about everyone’s favorite topic: how ice cubes are made.
www.foodandwine.com/how-cocktail...
www.foodandwine.com/how-cocktail...
did the thing. didn’t get my ballot in the mail so went in person. was the 14th in-person voter at 8:30.
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
did the thing. didn’t get my ballot in the mail so went in person. was the 14th in-person voter at 8:30.
“Whatever could be causing a loneliness epidemic?” you ask the internet, sitting in a driverless car wearing headphones that you never take off in public, as an anonymous shopper makes contactless delivery of your meal kits using the keypad entry of your condo atop empty ground floor retail space
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Whatever could be causing a loneliness epidemic?” you ask the internet, sitting in a driverless car wearing headphones that you never take off in public, as an anonymous shopper makes contactless delivery of your meal kits using the keypad entry of your condo atop empty ground floor retail space
Didn’t someone in the cocktail world write an article about Dorothy Draper and swizzle sticks? @wcurtis.bsky.social maybe you?
google ain’t googling for me.
google ain’t googling for me.
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Didn’t someone in the cocktail world write an article about Dorothy Draper and swizzle sticks? @wcurtis.bsky.social maybe you?
google ain’t googling for me.
google ain’t googling for me.
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Let's take it to the stage! I'll be out west for the next couple of weeks, talking about the Comic Book History of the Cocktail. Here's the list, but note I'll also be in Mystic, Connecticut signing books this Saturday (Nov.8), & at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta Nov. 24th. Come on down and say howdy!
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Let's take it to the stage! I'll be out west for the next couple of weeks, talking about the Comic Book History of the Cocktail. Here's the list, but note I'll also be in Mystic, Connecticut signing books this Saturday (Nov.8), & at Ticonderoga Club in Atlanta Nov. 24th. Come on down and say howdy!
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October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
from the alcademics archives:
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
from the alcademics archives:
Think your freezer ice smells? This guy’s ice is 6 million years old!
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Beneath Antarctica's Surface, Scientists Unearth The Oldest Ice Sample Ever Recovered
"This discovery has far exceeded our expectations.”
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October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Think your freezer ice smells? This guy’s ice is 6 million years old!
www.iflscience.com/the-oldest-i...
www.iflscience.com/the-oldest-i...
In my second piece for SFGate published in the last 12 hours, here’s a write-up of Stephen Curry’s new bar in San Francisco. (headlines be headlining)
www.sfgate.com/food/article...
www.sfgate.com/food/article...
How Warriors' Steph Curry gets around a California liquor law in his new bar
Curry, who is a partner of the San Francisco bar, sells a lot of his own bourbon.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In my second piece for SFGate published in the last 12 hours, here’s a write-up of Stephen Curry’s new bar in San Francisco. (headlines be headlining)
www.sfgate.com/food/article...
www.sfgate.com/food/article...
