Comments on: NYT drinks gin http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:07:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AE http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/comment-page-1/#comment-319 AE Sat, 05 May 2007 07:55:22 +0000 http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/#comment-319 Oh, I probably had the Van Gogh then, but was too busy being seduced by Robin to notice the subtleties of the gin. Damn hussy! Very good on the Cheap Repository Tracts. It was published in 1795. Oh, I probably had the Van Gogh then, but was too busy being seduced by Robin to notice the subtleties of the gin. Damn hussy!

Very good on the Cheap Repository Tracts. It was published in 1795.

]]> By: Ardenstone http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Ardenstone Thu, 03 May 2007 22:52:46 +0000 http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/#comment-305 I can only imagine the staff at the NYT would think that's the best thing <em>ever</em>. Because it is. Every couple of years I go searching for the text of that online (isn't it from "Cheap Repository Tracts vol.3" published in like 1725 or something?) and still haven't found it. I have to imagine it's out of copyright at this point, but Project Gutenberg hasn't added it, yet. They have <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15034" rel="nofollow">Cheap Repository Tracts vol 6</a>, but it's woefully short of gin references. Didn't you have some of the Van Gogh gin last fall when Robin was here? I have vague memories that we killed the rest of a bottle of it that evening. I can only imagine the staff at the NYT would think that’s the best thing ever. Because it is.

Every couple of years I go searching for the text of that online (isn’t it from “Cheap Repository Tracts vol.3″ published in like 1725 or something?) and still haven’t found it. I have to imagine it’s out of copyright at this point, but Project Gutenberg hasn’t added it, yet. They have Cheap Repository Tracts vol 6, but it’s woefully short of gin references.

Didn’t you have some of the Van Gogh gin last fall when Robin was here? I have vague memories that we killed the rest of a bottle of it that evening.

]]> By: AE http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/comment-page-1/#comment-300 AE Thu, 03 May 2007 19:19:04 +0000 http://www.ardenstone.com/2007/05/02/nyt-drinks-gin/#comment-300 I think it is the name that has mostly put me off Van Gogh. Perhaps I ought to give it another whirl. Your description of Junipero is very entertaining; I love the image of the bottle snarling and looming aggressively over your glass. Down, boy! My mental image of Old Raj is always that of an alarming-looking yellowish bottle in your cabinet of liquid curiosities. I wanted the NYT to say more about bitters and other garnishes; I know they were trying to focus on the gin, but which ones are good with which items? I have really taken a fancy to Plymouth with bitters. And I still want to learn to love olives; is there a good gin for that? As for Hendricks and its slightly cucumber taste, I am growing borage in my garden this year... as soon as it flowers, I am putting those flowers in all my Hendricks martinis. Hooray for summer! Who wants to e-mail "The Gin-Shop, or, A Peep Into Prison" to the New York Times? I think it is the name that has mostly put me off Van Gogh. Perhaps I ought to give it another whirl.

Your description of Junipero is very entertaining; I love the image of the bottle snarling and looming aggressively over your glass. Down, boy!

My mental image of Old Raj is always that of an alarming-looking yellowish bottle in your cabinet of liquid curiosities.

I wanted the NYT to say more about bitters and other garnishes; I know they were trying to focus on the gin, but which ones are good with which items? I have really taken a fancy to Plymouth with bitters. And I still want to learn to love olives; is there a good gin for that?

As for Hendricks and its slightly cucumber taste, I am growing borage in my garden this year… as soon as it flowers, I am putting those flowers in all my Hendricks martinis. Hooray for summer!

Who wants to e-mail “The Gin-Shop, or, A Peep Into Prison” to the New York Times?

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