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Author Archives: Eddie Pensier
Cocktails Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: “Tweedle Rum” (Gosling’s rum, pineapple juice lime, ginger beer, spiced vanilla-pomegranate syrup, and Angostura bitters, with fresh pineapple garnish and freeze-dried pineapple on the side) and “Mad Hatter” (Appleton 12 Year rum, Bulleit bourbon, Hennessey VS cognac, … Continue reading
Beer Day Out (2015 Edition)
Eddie Pensier writes: I had so much fun at last year’s Beer Day Out (which I recounted for readers here) that I decided to return. Once again, the event was held at the Old Bus Depot in Kingston: once again, … Continue reading
Sean Connery With A Cat Du Jour
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Eddie’s Spirit Chronicles: Stolen Rum Coffee & Cigarettes
Eddie Pensier writes: New Zealand brand Stolen Rum has a hipster origin story for the ages: inspired by a Jim Jarmusch movie. Instead of the usual fruitcakey sorts of spices that flavor a spiced rum, Stolen decided to make theirs … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, The Good Life
Tagged cigarettes, coffee, eddies spirit chronicles, rum, stolen
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Spicy Chicken, Ugly Buildings, and Freddie Mercury
Eddie Pensier writes: A recent business trip to Sydney brought some fantastic culinary experiences and some regrettable architectural ones. I made a pilgrimage to the Central Park shopping centre in Chippendale to visit (among other things) Daiso, that marvelously kooky … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: There are those who see “ugly meanings in beautiful things.” Classical music and its institutions come under relentless criticism. The barometers by which music is often measured are extrinsic to the art form itself. Classical music’s presence … Continue reading
The Camera Loves…
Eddie Pensier writes: …Glynis Johns, Miranda, 1948
Pop Science, Five Ways
Eddie Pensier writes: As should be obvious to regular readers, I’m hardly a scientific type. Music, food, drink, and art are more my speed. But every once in a while my brain drifts briefly to rationality and I enjoy learning … Continue reading
Australian Hot Chocolate, Five Ways
Eddie Pensier writes: There might be more obvious candidates for the title of quintessentially Australian drink. VB, Penfold’s Grange, Bundy, Sullivan’s Cove. But it cannot be denied that hot chocolate is big business here. Not “cocoa”, either, but real, serious, … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, Personal reflections
Tagged Australia, chocolate, five ways, koko black, max brenner, oliver brown, san churro
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Five Books About The Opera Business
Eddie Pensier writes: The Toughest Show On Earth: My Rise And Reign At the Metropolitan Opera Joseph Volpe and Charles Michener Volpe was the Met’s General Manager from 1990 to 2006. In retrospect his tenure may have been conservative, but … Continue reading
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Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
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