Bartending

With alumni from The Georgia School of Bartending, my fellow phone monkeys and I discovered that graduates from that institution didn't fare quite as well.

Dan Lybarger: Tales of a Phone Monkey: My Tour of Duty at Sallie Mae Dan Lybarger 2011

This was not an isolated incident, but we never found out what the crime of choice was for Georgia School of Bartending alumni.

Dan Lybarger: Tales of a Phone Monkey: My Tour of Duty at Sallie Mae Dan Lybarger 2011

I came across him in Hemingway and Baily's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers, a book about sloshed writers and their favorite sauces.

O Youth and Beauty! 2009

These are instructional videos from "American Bartending School", made by the instructor, Jack Tiano.

Drinks...And Goobers Who Make Them polarbear 2008

Bartending might strike some as a trivial example compared to the C-level corporate slots women continue to fight for, but since the service industry sector employs more than 7 million American women, the wage disparity arguably has a more potent ripple effect in everyday society.

Cristen Conger: A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap 2010

I tend to call this epoch the "Tom Cruise Era of Bartending" -- coinciding with the rise of the Harvey Wallbanger and the frozen daiquiri and the Long Island Iced Tea and the Fuzzy Navel and bright-colored shots with names that can't printed in a "family newspaper".

Spirits: The last of the fabled free pourers Jason Wilson 2010

Professional Bartending School: The Arlington school allows non-students to visit one class for free.

Boost your food IQ: Classes you might also like 2010

To learn more about how women elbowed their way behind the bar, listen to "A Sobering History of Women and Bartending" from Stuff Mom Never Told You.

Cristen Conger: A Bartender's Guide to the Gender Wage Gap 2010

Bartending wisdom during this era was too often something like "a little bit of peach schnapps never hurts".

Spirits: The last of the fabled free pourers Jason Wilson 2010

Intermezzo for Bartending | Spontaneous ∂erivation

Intermezzo for Bartending | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009