All posts tagged: homemade

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 […]

Aquavit, or what to drink in a viking burial mound

February 22, 2015
by dlgallian
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Gin / Make Your Own

When I was in college, I spent a semester in Denmark studying architecture. Part of our education was to pile into those tourist busses with the grey and maroon carpeted seats and be driven around to endless architecturally significant landmarks, where we’d tumble out, sketch furiously for 40 minutes, then pile back on to the bus. Often these were day trips, requiring us to get there before daybreak, returning home long after dark with notebooks […]