Category Archive for lemon juice
-
Pop Goes Art and "Warhol's Bloody Mary,"
This week back in 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled his first images of Campbell's soup cans... not in NYC, but at a legendary LA gallery. Learn about the tasty (and relatively inexpensive) beginnings of pop art, then silkscreen this custom cocktail. Read more...
-
Blue Jeans and "the Arcuate"
This week back in 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis landed a patent for what may be the best-known item of clothing ever - denim jeans. Learn about the surprisingly international history of the All-American "waist overalls," then salute your shorts/pants with this custom cocktail. Read more...
-
Spider-Dan and "Trumped"
On Memorial Day, 1981, Dan Goodwin did some climbing. Which sounds normal enough for a guy who was a rock climber... except his target was the surface of the (then) tallest building in the world - Chicago's Sears Tower -- and he scaled it dressed as Spider-Man. Read more...
-
The Smoke and Honey
This week back in 1954, Willie Mosconi performed one of the most brilliant feats in sports, ever, draining 526 consecutive billiard balls. Learn about the child prodigy-turned-15-time-World-Champion - then rack up a set of these custom cocktails. Read more...
-
The Astronaughties Deep Space Freeze
On March 13th, 1781, famed astonromer Sir William Herschel was using a homemade telescope in his backyard... when he spotted what he thought was a comet. Read more...
-
The Liquid Propaganda
This week back in 1949, an American judge sentenced Mildred Gillars - better known as "Axis Sally" - to prison. Learn about the All-American gal who became the seductive voice of German propaganda during WWII... then take a swig of bitter drink with a deceptively sweet surface. Read more...
-
The Instant Replay
This week, back in 1963, CBS' Tony Verna changed the world of sports by replaying a crucial moment in an Army v. Navy college football game. Learn about the history of instant replay, then toast Tony repeatedly with this custom drink. Read more...
-
The Pong Pong
This week in 1972, a fledgling company called Atari unveiled its first-ever video game. Hear the story of how the simplest game ever launched a $60-billion-dollar industry... then bounce this custom cocktail down your gullet. Read more...
-
Edison 77
This week back in 1877, Thomas Edison announced he'd invented the first working recording device -- the phonograph. 134 years later we've got Dolby, THX... and this custom cocktail inspired by the phonograph's special sound. Read more...
-
Spencer's Sour
This week back in 1955, the average home kitchen changed forever. You can thank Raytheon's Percy Spencer - and the candy bar in his pocket - for being able to nuke your leftovers. Hear the radioactive history of the microwave, then get toasted in no time at all with this custom cocktail. Read more...
-
The Government Lunch
This week back in 1813, prosperous meatpacker (and army supplier) Samuel Wilson of Troy, NY became known "Uncle Sam" - a moniker that ultimately spread to cartoonish proportions and came to represent the U.S. government at large. Read more...
-
The Bloody Corpse
This week back in 1667 the first successful human blood transfusion took place... which is not to say the ones that followed were successful. Listen to the wild and woolly story, then replace part of your bloodstream with this hangover cure - the mutant offspring of a Bloody Mary and a Corpse Reviver #2. Read more...
-
Trumped
This week in 1981, outdoor adventurer Dan Goodwin did some climbing. Which sounds normal enough...except his target was the surface of the (then) tallest building in the world - Chicago's Sears Tower -- and he scaled it dressed as Spider-Man. Read more...
-
The Fightin' Words
This week in 1903, Texas' most unlikely Justice of the Peace -- Phantley Roy Bean Jr. -- died. He literally held court in his frontier saloons, so we served ourselves a summons to one of the best cocktail spots in Austin to let another bartender lay down the (liquid) law. Read more...
-
The Bloody Mary Shooter
This week in 1897, a young Bayer chemist named Felix Hoffman invented aspirin as we know it (and then used the same procedure to create another, far less innocuous pharmaceutical). Read more...
-
Tybee Bomb
This week in 1958, the U.S. military lost an H-bomb. It's still lost... possibly somewhere off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia. Read more...
-
The Eternal Optimist
This week in 1971, the hapless basketball counterpart to the Harlem Globetrotters - The Washington Generals - won their only game. Read more...
-
The Pong Pong
This week in 1972, a fledgling company called Atari installed the prototype of its first-ever video game in a Silicon Valley bar. Hear the story of how the simplest game ever launched a $60-billion-dollar industry. Read more...
-
The Piltdown Daisy
In 1912, English fossil collector Charles Dawson claimed to have found evidence of the 'missing link' between apes and humans -- people called it "Piltdown Man". This week in 1953, news broke that the only thing "missing" from Dawson's discovery was even a single grain of truth. Read more...
-
The Annuity
This week in 1883, gentleman thief Black Bart finally botched a job...after pulling off 27 stagecoach robberies. The lyrical larcenist left poems - but never dead bodies - at the scene of his crimes. Read more...
-
The Corpse Reviver Royale
This week in 1927, on the eve of releasing the first "talkie" feature, a tooth infection rendered studio chief Sam Warner forever silent. Read more...
-
Zamenhof Fizz
This week in 1887, linguophile L.L. Zamenhof completed his decade-in-the-making magnum opus: the Lingvo Internacia -- a universal language that came to be called Esperanto. Read more...
-
Corrigan's Bluff
This week in 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took a fateful wrong turn into the history books. Inspired by Charles Lindbergh, Corrigan pledged to fly his own junker of a plane across the Atlantic. Which he did, despite the efforts of safety regulators... and with some help from what he insisted was the world's worst sense of direction. Read more...
-
Detonator
This month back in 1958, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Canada that caused hundreds of shipwrecks and deaths, is blown up in the largest non-nuke peacetime explosion ever. Read more...
-
Exchange Elixir
This month back in 1817, the New York Stock Exchange formally began. We celebrate by telling you all about its most famous symbol: The Closing Bell... and then retire to one of America's best-known restaurants to toast the end of a hard day on the floor. Read more...
-
The Hawkins Ordinance
This week back in 1908 women in NYC were barred from smoking in public. Hear about how they won back their right to kill themselves, then celebrate your right to partake of this vice. Read more...
-
The Butterfly Sting
This week in back in 1967, Muhammad Ali -- a practicing Muslim -- suffered a major blow in his battle to be recognized as a conscientious objector; a jury sentenced him to 5 years for draft-dodging. Read more...
-
The Eiffel Tower
On May 6th, 1889, the Eiffel Tower opened to the public-- it served as the entrance to the World's Fair in Paris. The tallest structure on Earth at the time, it still failed to impress many of France's most famous artistes, who considered it a dark stain on the City of Light. Read more...
-
The 52 Fizz
For much of the 20th Century, England's romantic mist was actually a not-so-romantic brew of coal smoke and fog -- the word "smog" was coined to describe it. Read more...
-
The Edison
On November 21st, 1877, Thomas Edison announced he'd invented the first working recording device -- the phonograph. Read more...
