Category Archive for orange juice
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The Blood & Straw
This week in 1814, the physician who lent his name to one of France's best-known inventions died. Learn about Dr. Guillotin and his "enlightened" death machine, and then drink this custom cocktail 'til your head falls off: Read more...
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If You Push the Button...
This week in 1961, at the height of the cold War, the U.S. created "Operation: Looking Glass" to oversee its nuclear response from above... should the worst happen on the ground. Read more...
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The Mona Lisa in Florence
100 years ago this week, the most famous painting in the world turned up missing. Learn about brazen thief Vincenzo Peruggia, who claimed he did it all for his mother country... then celebrate art with this Italian take on the "Mona Lisa" cocktail -- pioneered by a bar right next to the Louvre called Le Fumoir. Read more...
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Pac-Man
This week back in 1980, Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani helped arcades go co-ed...by inventing a game for gals. Feast your ears upon the story of Pac-Man, then gobble up this eponymous custom cocktail. Read more...
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Three Strikes
On June 3rd, 1888, Ernest Thayer's baseball rhyme "Casey At the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. Popularized by vaudeville actor DeWolf Hopper, soon everyone in America was in love with the poem... except the author. Read more...
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The Berliner Olympic
In early August 1936, Jesse Owens became the first American track & field athlete to win four gold medals... much to the chagrin of that year's Olympic hosts: Nazi Germany. Read more...
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The Stork Club
Jack Paar was a popular television talk show host with an emotional streak -- this week in 1960, he walked off the set of "The Tonight Show" in the middle of a live broadcast. Read more...
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The Jersey Devil
Seventy years ago this week, Orson Welles freaked out millions of American radio listeners with his radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds." Read more...
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Fish House Punch
The cornerstone of what would later be known as The White House was laid this week back in 1792. It's first resident? John Adams, who favored this oddly-named colonial-era cocktail. Read more...
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The Jack Kerouac
This week back in 1940, the first cars rolled onto America's first highway -- The Pennsylvania Turnpike. Read more...
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Berliner Olympic
- Combination of the Olympic - popular in Owens' day - and the Berliner. Read more...
