My 100th Post

That's a little weird to write.  Maybe this blog thing is going to stick.  Thanks to everyone for tuning in and please keep passing it along to friends.  All right, enough of the mushy stuff.  First up:

• Today is the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, a dark time in American history that I'm not sorry to have missed.  That said, while history tends to focus on Prohibition as the birth of modern organized crime, Camper over at Alcademics provides a great look at some of Prohibition's positive contributions.  The point about setting the stage for the tiki movement via the re-introduction of rum is--obviously--my favorite!
• Ben Sandrof over at Drink makes great cocktails.  Even with that in mind, though, his 1919 was a revelation.  Make time; go see the man.  Oh and if you want to try it at home:

      3/4oz. Rittenhouse Rye

3/4oz. Old Monk Rum (Ben made mine with Pampero Anniversario)

 1oz. Punt e Mes

1/2oz. Benedictine

1 dash Bitterman's Xocolatl Mole Bitters (or Fee's Whiskey Aged)

- stir with ice and strain.

• A uber-geeky article in the NYTimes about bartending philosophies.
• And let's close things out with my new favorite cover all time: the Foo Fighters and Carly Simon's, "You're So Vain."