Bottoms Up

It happened and we missed it, International Cocktail Day, was this past Tuesday.

Well how to celebrate and rectify this oversight?

Maybe the recipe for a Jake Walk cocktail from the The Jake Walk bar in NYC, in Food & Wine's Magazine blog, and reading what Nick Fauchald, Senior Editor wrote to describe The Jake Walk bar, how could it not make a post. Life brings things to you when they are attune, there is no need to hunt them out, they just find you.

"If Stinky Bklyn is Gossip Girl, then the couple’s latest venture, The Jake Walk, is John from Cincinnati. Its name is obscure—“jake walk” is 1930s slang for the partially paralyzed gait exhibited by Prohibition-era vagabonds who drank Jamaica Ginger, a highly alcoholic (though legal) patent medicine found to be loaded with, whoops, neurotoxins—and, like John from Cincinnati, you’re not quite sure how to describe Jake Walk , except for “singularly awesome” (if you disagree with me about JfC, don’t hold it against Jake Walk)."
Mouthing Off/Food &Wine Magazine


The Jake Walk Courtesy of Dan Wondrich (The Jake Walk)
Makes 1 drink
Ice
3/4 ounce reposado tequila
3/4 ounce J.M. Rhum Blanc (or other white rum)
3/4 ounce St-Germain (elderflower liqueur)
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Candied ginger, for garnish
Fill a shaker with ice. Add everything except the ginger and shake vigorously. Strand into a chilled coupe and garnish with the candied ginger.

Now, you wonder if there's an Austinotsotini to go with it?





For those who missed their Austin Friday, no fear it will be a double shot next week to start and end your work week.