Thursday, June 27, 2013  Cocktail gets crafty ... and frisky
Then you've got all the producers of specialty liqueurs (St.
Germain, to name just one) with recipe books of their own. A
home bartender can get seriously ivolved with do-it-yourself
bitters, homemade syrups and pickled garnishes. And the
mixologists! A regiment of "behind-the-bartists" eager to show
off their inventiveness.       Aphrodisiacs with a Twist, 256
pages, $24.95  Wednesday, June 5, 2013  Your place or mine?
Sangiovese vineyards outside Panzano-in-Chianti, Tuscany  On
Facebook this morning I noted that an American wine writer named
Tom Wark seemed to have trouble understanding: that PLACE was
more important than grape variety or producer. (Here's a link to
the article that caught my attention.) Why is that so hard to
understand?  To which this reply, not from the author, by the
way: I'll tell you why it's so hard to understand: if there was
a farm that raised three kinds of fowl, duck, chicken and
goose...and then said farm went to ma