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We typically use Lustau Los Arcos Amontillado, but Fino works well too.

Here I am, making the drink on Small Screen Network:

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Yes, celery has natural occurring nitrates, as do many vegetables. Celery apparently has more than most, which is why it is used for “natural” curing.

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The presentation is along the lines of a Jerry Thomas Blue Blazer. 😉

Plus, the presentation of a Spanish coffee at Portland’s Huber is fabulous!

hubers.com

Huh? Can’t find any reference to this besides a paywalled article.

(My slightly obscure reference 🤣)

“Calling Dr. Cocktail, calling Dr. Cocktail!” 😉

A bar AND a library. My kind of place!

If you can, check out “House Without a Key”, that was the best Mai Tai album had on my last trip (perhaps 18 years ago)

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From their website (KSER.org) you can also listen to shows from the past week if you need to time-shift.

playlist.kser.org/v3/player/

Saturday starts with “The Big Bandstand”, followed by “Frettin’ Fingers”, “Juke Joint”, and “The Gumbo Mix”. Eight hours of great music!

It is a small “member supported” station in Everett WA that we stumbled across one day. Every Saturday at 9am (PST) they have two hours of great/old jazz, followed by great guitar, followed by… we typically listen to it all day on Saturday.

That so called “Star Trek Fan Club” is just a clickbate account. Their articles are always the worst. And yet the “fans” still debate the topic

Perhaps it is just a mistaken childhood memory, but in the 70’s I recall a custom “vending machine” in our school that was filled with Red Delicious apples and how crisp and delicious they were. Today, they are mealy and lackluster. Is my memory faulty, or were they really once great?

Went in between on this recipe from the OCTS&C recipe and Mr. Hess’s.

1 1/2 oz rum (plantation 3 star), 1/2 oz lime juice (a whole lime I suspect would not work well) 1/2 oz sweet vermouth (!), 1/8 oz grenadine, 1/8 oz crème de cacao (Tempus Fugit) and 1/8 oz curaçao.

Was still quite snappy

Properly made, this can be a wonderful drink. The secret is to be careful with the crème de cacao. It should be at the level where you don’t “taste” it, but you can just barely “detect” it.

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When we were originally filming this, it was for a company called "Storypipe", which disbanded before the video was released. One of the partners, Colin Kimball, created his own company "Small Screen Network", using my show to launch with. This "Champagne Cocktail" episode came out on April 1, 2007.

If Jacques Bezuidenhout was here, I’d tag him IYKYK 🤣