crawdiddy
qu'est-ce que c'est?
Last night I heard an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show (Air America, not MSNBC), with Dale DeGroff, author of The Essential Cocktail, The Craft of the Cocktail, and other bartending guides. Apparently he's some sort of mixology god, credited with much of the cocktail renaissance of late.
Link here: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307405739
Although he also creates new drinks, he's basically a cocktail classicist, insisting on the use of basic ingredients; fruit juices, sugar, bitters, etc.; scratch rather than mixes.
But he lost me when he started talking about the photography credits. He was "lucky" to find a good digital photographer, who had always worked in digital, and everything in the book is digital, blah blah blah.
Disappointing that his purist views on his subject matter didn't translate to his book illustrations. The idea that luck is required to find digital photographers these days also seemed odd.
I'm not trolling here. And no, I'm not saying he should publish on a Guttenberg press. Just saying he might consider further purifying his vision by the use of analog photography.
Here's my nod to the cocktail. Canon 7, 50mm f/0.95. (not sure what happened in the lower right corner, but I think it was a light leak when I removed the lens)
Link here: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307405739
Although he also creates new drinks, he's basically a cocktail classicist, insisting on the use of basic ingredients; fruit juices, sugar, bitters, etc.; scratch rather than mixes.
But he lost me when he started talking about the photography credits. He was "lucky" to find a good digital photographer, who had always worked in digital, and everything in the book is digital, blah blah blah.
Disappointing that his purist views on his subject matter didn't translate to his book illustrations. The idea that luck is required to find digital photographers these days also seemed odd.
I'm not trolling here. And no, I'm not saying he should publish on a Guttenberg press. Just saying he might consider further purifying his vision by the use of analog photography.
Here's my nod to the cocktail. Canon 7, 50mm f/0.95. (not sure what happened in the lower right corner, but I think it was a light leak when I removed the lens)
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Peter_Jones
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Closest thing to a cocktail I'd drink is a pint of "mixed"
(Half Bitter, half Mild)
Call me a beer purist
(Half Bitter, half Mild)
Call me a beer purist
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
dude: you lost it when you started talking about Rachel Maddow. dont need no know-it-all.
all you need to know about "cocktails" is Jim Beam and coke cola, or straight Chivas.
from L.A.
all you need to know about "cocktails" is Jim Beam and coke cola, or straight Chivas.
from L.A.