Month: March 2015

Vin d’Orange, or The Best Stuff I’ve Ever Made (and I’ve made a lot)

March 8, 2015
by dlgallian
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Aperitif / Make Your Own

I first started seeing (or started noticing) house-made Vin d’Orange on bar menus in the past few months at places like Penrose and Pizzaiolo here in Oakland and, being a fan of anything slightly bitter, slightly sweet, fragrant and low alcohol, immediately became obsessed.  Imagine my unfettered delight when I discovered just how easy it is to make at home, and more happily, that it was smack in the middle of the short-lived Seville orange […]

What to drink when you’re down for the count

March 1, 2015
by dlgallian
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Absinthe / Gin / Lillet

The first time I fell – and I mean really fell – I was eighteen and volunteering rebuilding hiking trails at a state park in Tennessee.  It was a mid-summer evening, sweltering and humid, and we were racing down the trail to throw ourselves in the river and wash away the day’s work.  I didn’t see a root protruding into the trail, and suddenly I was on the ground, my ankle immediately swollen to the size […]