Posts tagged “drinking”

#FridayFive: Hangover Cures

#FridayFive: Hangover Cures

How to sober up

#FridayFive: Gin

#FridayFive: Gin

In which I list my favorite gin

Goodbye, Trader Vic’s

Goodbye, Trader Vic’s

The end of an era

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Charles Benchley

If I had to live life over, I’d live over a saloon.
W.C. Fields

#FridayFive: Gin Drinks

View the Friday Five from April 4th, 2014

Prohibition!

It’s the 94th birthday of Prohibition! The Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Act, took effect on this date in 1920, a year after it was ratified. Congress passed the Act even though President Woodrow Wilson had vetoed it. It made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal. It took almost 14 years before the 21st

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#FridayFive: Favorite Drinks

View the Friday Five from November 1st, 2013

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What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.