David Wondrich
@DavidWondrich
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Barroom Historian. Editor in Chief, Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails. Wrote Imbibe + Punch. Brooklynite. On hiatus here--off sailing in the blue sky.
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Joined July 2010
Mothballing this for the time being. If you need me, I’ll be with Modugno. https://t.co/xtC1vgF5oj
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Cette vidéo marchera toujours.
🇫🇷 FLASH | "Je ne suis pas d'extrême droite, je ne l'ai jamais été et ne le serai jamais", affirme Jordan Bardella.
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*"pesce povero," not "peace povero." Il spellcheck è al meno analfabeta, per non dire cretino.
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(Osteria de Scarpon, for those who are planning on swinging by. Past masters of the “peace povero,” the unglamorous little fishes that are the backbone of Trieste’s cuisine.)
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Fuckin’ A!
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_. This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see: https://t.co/RngXyXze4Z
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Everything from the Mothers and Nico (presumably with the Velvet Underground) to Sun Ra to the folk-song stylings of Uncle Junior Soprano. Got-damn this city was something.
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Good morning everyone it's Trafalgar Day! It is the 219th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. At 8am the morning colours are to be raised on HMS Victory followed by the famous 'England Expects' Trafalgar signal. #trafalgarday
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(Song remixed by the deeply lamented, indispensable Brother Cleve.)
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A very lively conversation here with the great @shebmo about music, booze, and booze and music, if I do say so myself. Plus a (very rare) track from one of my 1980s bands. https://t.co/gW3Qnh6XU8
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Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Born from a resistance to the Soviet Dry Law, homemade moonshine has become a tradition in Ukraine. Nastia visited her grandma to make moonshine with her and learn her family's unique recipe for moonshine made from jam.
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Sunday afternoon spin. Two guitars, one drum machine, no vocals. Lotsa pedals. NYC 1981.
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#WhiskeyWednesday Alert!🥃🚨 A new single barrel expression has hit our online store—Keeper’s Heart finished in Sauternes barrels! This one-of-a-kind whiskey was hand-selected by renowned whiskey experts Noah Rothbaum & David Wondrich, alongside our Master Distiller Brian Nation
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49 years ago. Oct. 11, 1975. The very first episode of SNL goes live with host George Carlin and musical guests Billy Preston & Janis Ian. The show introduces itself to the world with the sketch "Wolverines", starring John Belushi and Michael O'Donoghue.
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Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 59 contr @DavidWondrich Bank Exchange during the 1850s and 60s, the first stop on San Francisco’s cocktail route, main foci of the sporty, social life of the city; later from the 1890s to Prohibition the home of Pisco Punch.
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This is how so many parts of day to day life have changed in the last couple of generations. A whole lot of low-level quirkiness has been polyurethaned over.
What do you call a small piece of wood under the skin (1950s vs 2016)
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Despite what politics suggests, human knowledge continues to advance. For instance, since this was published an 1878 reference to the Bamboo has been found, identifying it as a standard drink in the European settlements in East Asia.
Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails pg 58 contr @DavidWondrich Bamboo Cocktail simple mixture of sherry, vermouth, and bitters. First recorded 1886, later tributes by Boothby to Louis Eppinger. Subbing sherry lowered the proof of a Manhattan without losing intensity.
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Now this is intriguing!
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I don’t think any songwriter was better covered than Kris Kristofferson. Sit tibi terra levis, Magister Celestis. https://t.co/Y2pcbtPtB1
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A #flashbackfriday today to 1948, when Mary Lou Williams hosted a jam session with some female contemporaries in her NYC apartment. Vivien Garry: bass Bridget O'Flynn: drums Mary Osborne: guitar Margie Hyams: vibraphonist & of course, Mary Lou Williams on piano. What a group!
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