CLASSIC HAM SALAD

Labor Day is this weekend, and a lot of our readers will be doing potlucks, so we brought out this Classic Ham Salad from our archives. Prep Time: 10 min Total Time: 10 min Makes: 2 cups or 6 servings, 1/3 cup each Nutritional Information 1/2 cup (1/2 of 8-oz. tub) PHILADELPHIA 1/3 Less Fat than Cream Cheese 1/4 cup KRAFT Light Mayo Reduced Fat Mayonnaise 1 pkg. (9 oz.) OSCAR MAYER Del

Revisiting the Classics

Classic recipes breathe life into the cocktail and into the bar scene in general. The Intoxicologist has been sampling a few old cocktail recipes for fun and festive occasions. Aviation Day brought cocktails of many varieties, some new from SKYY Spirits ( SKYY Vodka: Aviation Day drink recipes ) and some classic using many base spirits: Aviation Day Recipes to Celebrate the Day . The Aviator classic drink recipe was my favorite of the bunch! Another fabulous classic cocktail using Carpa

A cookbook with a past.

Silence Dogood here. No, I’m not talking about Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, now at #2 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and still climbing. (Go Julia!!!) Not that I’m not even more thrilled than usual to have bought a first edition at my favorite used book store, The Saucony Book Shop in scenic Kutztown, PA, a couple of years ago. Actually, I’m talking about a wonderful discovery I made at our local library last weekend. I was feeling a bit under the we

SFist Drinks: The Promissory Note from The Alembic

Photo by bittermelon/Flickr If you break down contemporary cocktail culture as aficionados like Camper English are wont to do, you may be inclined to generalize that East Coast style (inspired lately by NYC joints like Milk Honey, Little Branch, Death Co., and Brooklyn's Clover Club) tends more toward spirit-driven drinks based on classic recipes, while West Coast style tends to be more about fresh, seasonal ingredients. The Alembic , up on Haight, might fall more in the forme

EVER HEARD ABOUT STAN JONES?

In 1977 a book was written by a man named Stan Jones. He was a bar manager in California (he lived in the San Fernando Valley) with a great experience from both the restaurant and beverage industry. What sets him apart is that he wrote the first book for professional bartenders in some 30 years and that he did during a time that is likened to the dark ages of cocktail mixology as the art of mixing drinks was almost lost and replaced with a phletora of crappy drinks made from canned juices, clo

EVER HEARD ABOUT STAN JONES?

In 1977 a book was written by a man named Stan Jones. He was a bar manager in California (he lived in the San Fernando Valley) with a great experience from both the restaurant and beverage industry. What sets him apart is that he wrote the first book for professional bartenders in some 30 years and that he did during a time that is likened to the dark ages of cocktail mixology as the art of mixing drinks was almost lost and replaced with a phletora of crappy drinks made from canned juices, clo

Tinkering With Teaching

August 5th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Today we had the Leadership Conference in our overly-large school district, the annual August gathering for all of us above a certain pay grade, designed to provide an inspirational kickoff for the new school year.Our keynote speaker this time around was Tony Wagner from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of The Global Achievement Gap (which I haven’t read yet).Wagner spent most of his time telling us about how our kids have changed,