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  • On the cocktail's purported 75th anniversary, 20 acclaimed chefs lined up their restaurants' creations on the fabled bar, exhibiting the pride of child beauty-pageant stage moms.

    The Bloody Mary Makeover Steve Garbarino 2011

  • The balanced mai tai dispels that cocktail's image as cloying and classless; its pisco sour, frothy with egg whites and bright with fresh lime, is an $11 pit stop in Peru.

    Tom Sietsema on the Atlas Room: Two-chef restaurant lives up to name 2011

  • History Lesson Jay McInerney on the fabled morning cocktail's muddled inception

    The Bloody Mary Makeover Steve Garbarino 2011

  • If I yank off the iPods and tell a child to study DNA because it will be good for her or at the least threaten withholding her high school diploma if she refuses to bend to my curriculum, I might be able to sneak her past our state biology exam--a cocktail's party view of biology may suffice to get the diploma but see below.

    Archive 2009-06-01 doyle 2009

  • If I yank off the iPods and tell a child to study DNA because it will be good for her or at the least threaten withholding her high school diploma if she refuses to bend to my curriculum, I might be able to sneak her past our state biology exam--a cocktail's party view of biology may suffice to get the diploma but see below.

    Preparing for the global cocktail party doyle 2009

  • Given its rather odd and vaguely off-putting assemblage of ingredients, the Michelada has yet to really break out from the Hispanic drinkers who are the cocktail's core constituency.

    A Curious Treat From Down Mexico Way 2009

  • Gosh - it's years since I've played Yahtzee, we used to have such fun with that here...never tried it al la cocktail's though.

    Hidden Tutorial and Tips Resource- Mid Atlantic Chapter ISGB Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2009

  • Anyone who drank a Martini with even a sixth part of vermouth in it would be instantly spotted, given the cocktail's faint coloration.

    Don't Shoot the Messenger: Bad News for Martini Drinkers 2009

  • After the show's four main characters gossiped over Cosmopolitans, the cocktail's popularity skyrocketed.

    Bag Borrow or Steal Lands 2008

  • Explaining the cocktail's appeal to distaff drinkers, she said that "they appear mild, but they're potent."

    A ghost of a cocktail past 2007

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