Friday rolls around again; and I watch as vodka highball after vodka highball leaves the bar, occasionally a rum & coke or rye & coke break the monotony (although these really are Canadian Whiskey & Cokes, but more on that later).
At some point in time it became acceptable for drinks to be nothing more than a tasteless, colorless, odorless liquor and soda water/juice and it's not that people WOULDN't drink more complex or interesting (or dare I say it GOOD) drinks it's just that some people don't know better and since everyone is drinking beer and vodka highballs, they do too.
In the past 10 years (I've heard tell) the classic cocktail scene is being revived, in places like NY, LA, London and San Francisco it is still possible to get a real cocktail at numberous bars, however in Vancouver, your options for both home mixing and cocktail bars are severely limited.
If it is still unclear the goal of this blog is to take both myself and the reader on a journey through both the art of the classic cocktail up to the edge of the contemporary. However every endeavor needs a starting point, and for this blog it will be Dale DeGroff's magnificent work The Essential Cocktail; The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks. I will be systematically making my way through the recipes in the book, although some will be skipped & saved for a later date as I am lacking some ingredients.
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