There’s a brilliant line in the movie Julie & Julia where food blogger Julie Powell says that blogs are inherently narcissistic, it’s always about me, me, me, right? So here’s me being all about me, me, me. I just wanted to let you know that I’m taking a mo to revamp Symposiia. It’s still going…
Tag: Drinking
Guest Post: ‘Queen of Thorns’
A Drink Inspired by HBO’s Game of Thrones By Jaclyn Koss White Russians. Cosmopolitans. Vespers. French 75s. All of these cocktails have one thing in common — they have a strong association with a movie or tv show. There is a large list of boozy beverages made popular because of their ties to the entertainment…
Lemons into Limoncello
warning: a very personal post When I was 21 years old, I had just gotten my bartending certificate and only had a few months of experience with alcohol. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I was trying to be crafty and artisanal; I sliced some grocery store lemons into perfectly equal, beautiful…
Hi, for the first time.
I have been agonizing over how to write this first post for a very long time. Since 2016. I meant to start this in 2017. And here we are, in 2018, several drinks in on a night when I should be working on a graduate school assignment and finally inspired to write. I have been…
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