tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1882929257123652392024-02-08T02:34:29.799+00:0069 Colebrooke RowCocktail tales from the bar with no name at 69 Colebrooke Row, London N169 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-53244341258254771332013-01-04T15:12:00.000+00:002013-01-04T15:12:47.175+00:00Juice Season <span style="font-family: inherit;">It's that time of year again when the liver needs a little love. To help us get over the party season, at Colebrooke Row we're huge fans of fresh juices. This week we'll be drinking Apple Mojitos and praising the homogeniser which makes our fresh juices that extra bit tasty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 6 mint sprigs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 15ml sugar syrup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 10ml fresh lemon juice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 15ml fresh lime juice </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 75ml freshly pressed green apple juice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- lemon and lime slice and mint sprig, to garnish</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Muddle the mint sprigs with sugar syrup in a cocktail tin. </span></i><br />
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<i>4. Garnish with a lemon and lime slice and a bruised mint sprig. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Colebrooke Row, Tony's Apple Mojito recipe is a winner for bartenders and the home-cocktail maker alike. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are heaps of detox properties in every element of this drink. As a whole, the three major components are fantastic for facilitating and improving digestion. In addition, lime juice works hard to rejuvenate the skin, apples aid in preventing anaemia and weakness, and mint helps with both headaches and nausea and activates the saliva glands to promote taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those not drinking alcohol, there's no reason not to be drinking something really good. This is simple to make, especially in batches. Happy detoxing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An Ode to the Homogeniser</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Traditional stirring and mixing methods don't always produce optimum results when employed for many blending tasks. A homogeniser is a nifty machine that transforms the consistency of various types of material by breaking up its particles, resulting in a more uniform - or homogenous, product. There are several types of homogeniser used in the food industry and in science laboratories alike, which break up tissue, plants, soil and food. The original homogeniser is the humble pestle and mortar, used for thousands of years to disrupt the consistency of material and is still a standard tool in laboratories and kitchens. Whereas older technologies simply focused on the disruption of material, newer technologies prioritise quality. For example, the ultrasonic homogeniser uses ultrasonic sound waves to create high and low pressure cycles which breaks up the particles of individual liquids to allow them to blend together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">High-pressure homogenisation is an important process in the sanitary treatment of food and nutritional products, especially dairy. It provides improved product stability, shelf life and digestion as well as improving the final taste. Using a high-pressure homogeniser can also significantly reduce the amount of additives required, especially with baby foods and dairy products. The effect is achieved by forcing the product through a special homogenising valve at a very high pressure. Typically, products enter the homogeniser with sizes ranging from 1 micron (1000th of a gram) to 0.4 microns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At Colebrooke Row we like to use a homogeniser for fresh juices which are used in the bar either on their own or in cocktails. Our homogeniser is a simple model that works using a series of fast-spinning sharp blades. The homogeniser is fantastic for juicing fibrous fruits such as lemon, lime and rhuburb: when the blades spin, they break up the fibres of the fruit, which produces a rounder, fuller and richer flavour. There are different levels on the homogeniser so that you can choose the speed at which the blades spin. The more fibrous the juice, the higher the level needed. However, be careful not to homogenise a juice for too long at too high a speed, or it will begin to burn. Homogenising juice is a fast and simple way to really to improve the texture and mouth-feel of juice - it makes being good to yourself all that more pleasurable!</span><br />
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<br />69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-3767908948655699012012-12-28T16:10:00.001+00:002012-12-28T18:10:38.374+00:00On Nature<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4RClzZEqbB_udGLEPWmVU4bmYO0ytjhBxrOL491tQJZn12usN9J2xWBx3SWbwGxOycxDUm1UFe96JX-QVpQcIEYAl8kmvViaaKE6UMrfO2uoe1b5c1hPoNirs9hzDADnS3S93PV5EJBi/s1600/japanese-garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4RClzZEqbB_udGLEPWmVU4bmYO0ytjhBxrOL491tQJZn12usN9J2xWBx3SWbwGxOycxDUm1UFe96JX-QVpQcIEYAl8kmvViaaKE6UMrfO2uoe1b5c1hPoNirs9hzDADnS3S93PV5EJBi/s320/japanese-garden.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">The role of science in the craftsmanship of our drinks is often one of the most talked about factors for those who visit 69 Colebrooke Row. The ethos behind our menu is that nothing is ever finished; be it a classic cocktail or an entirely new creation, drinks are always subject to engineering. Each recipe is regarded in the same manner that a mechanic might look at an engine - as something that can be taken and put back together again. For us, not only will the drink still work once all its components are back in place, but it will also function on an entirely new level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this way, using the science available at the bar's lab is a way for us to evolve what bartenders can do with the ingredients available to them, as well as add a new chapter to a pre-existing recipe rather than simply rewriting the book. Because science is used on a daily basis to help execute the concepts behind many of our drinks, it is often overlooked how much nature is an inspiration for the crafting of a new cocktail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nature has always been an inspiration for the arts encompassing the diverse terrains of painting, architecture, perfumery, fashion, photography, literature and cuisine. Nature has an inherent duality, incorporating as it does both growth and destruction and it is truly inspirational in its evocative ability to reinvent itself. Although nature is full of aesthetic pleasures, its beauty also comes from its clever design. For centuries, Japanese culture has revered nature as an ideal of beauty. Indeed, a defining part of Japanese culture is a deep awareness of nature’s seasons in order to work in synthesis with them. Seasonal culture is inherited from generation to generation and incorporates diverse traditions: from changing dishes and tablecloths, to horticulture and cuisine<span style="font-size: small;">;</span> this has been a real inspiration for the way in which we approach <span style="font-size: small;">ingredient</span>s and cocktail-making at Colebrooke row.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word <i>shun</i> which means ‘now-in-season’ is a long-held principle for selecting local food produced in its season. Japanese cooking reflects the natural environment that surrounds it. Apart from being thought of as a tasty and healthy way of eating, it also has cultural value. When it comes to food, the experience of eating includes smell and taste, as well as the sight of the food which is considered an important kind of art. Decorations and colours of the dish are aligned with the season. White is for the winter, pink and green are for the spring, red and green (or purple) are for the summer and orange and yellow are for the autumn. </span></span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In addition, utensils for eating are also 'seasonal.' Deep bowls, which give a 'warm feeling', are used in the winter to keep the heat, whilst in the summer, wide shallow bowls which allow more air exposure are used. These dishes are decorated seasonally too - a sakura pattern in the spring and a red-leaved pattern in the autumn. Glassware which signifies ice is used in the summer to promote a cool-feeling. </span></span></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">At Colebrooke Row we are huge fans of Kigo, the Japanese shochu. In Japanese, the word Kigo denotes specific terms used to describe seasonal events. For example, <i>haru </i>is the name of the spring but the morning time in spring is called <i>shungyoo. </i>The spring thunder is called <i>shunrai </i>but thunder in the summer is termed <i>kaminari. </i>When it comes to using Kigo in cocktails we like to keep in mind the beautiful six-generation Kyo-ya distillery in Nichinian, Kysushu where the spirit is distilled. Its woodland surrounding and fresh water stream are often focal points for the way in which Kigo is incorporated in our drinks. In this way, we try to draw what is best from that which nature offers us, remove what is unnecessary and accentuate what is most desirable.. </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-18727861330290663392012-12-17T15:32:00.000+00:002012-12-28T17:59:50.898+00:00FASHION: From Catwalk To Plate To Cocktail Bar<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">In its various incarnations, the love affair between food and fashion is booming. </span><span style="font-size: small;">There aren’t many who wouldn’t agree that a beautiful dish is style on a plate. This is perhaps why collaborations between chefs and designers have become more and more commonplace in recent years. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The artistry and craftsmanship inherent to the culinary world lend themselves to the design and aesthetic values of fashion houses, both big and small. </span>Helmut<span style="font-size: small;"> Newton, trailblazing as always, was perhaps the first to pioneer the modern transcendence between the two disciplines. With his signature sense of louche, Newton’s foray into luxuriant surfaces naturally led him to the world of food.</span> <span style="font-size: small;">In a 1974 shoot for American Vogue, </span>Hewton<span style="font-size: small;"> snapped Jerry Hall squeezing a fistful of raw meat against her face. The later series ‘Chicken and Jewellery’ depicts crude, </span>sexualised food-play as a hand bedecked with a blinding diamond bracelet and ring rips apart a greasy cooked chicken. In these beautiful photographs, fashion, kink and food are all at play with one another.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><i>'I wanted to both mimic and contrast with Julia's incredible wardrobe and jewellery. For me it is a delicate and beautiful thing - it is dainty, and I wanted to showcase food in the same way. Like food, it is a garnish that we apply to the body in the same way that we use ingredients to decorate dishes and so we wanted to continue with this same idea - we garnish to extend its value.' </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Newton, Trussardi and Mendes all seem to share the same understanding when it comes to cuisine and design, so if food and fashion are such comfortable bed-mates, why is it that the drinks world is taking so long to get in on the fun? Considering the aesthetic inherent in drinking culture and the diverse inspirations that cocktails are born of, it seems strange that fashion hasn't had more influence on the cocktail world. At Colebrooke Row, we've spent some time over the past couple of years trying to bridge the gap. With Tony's history of working in the fashion world, it seemed natural to collaborate with fashion houses, particularly for the launch parties of new ranges. A good example of this is Ralph Lauren's launch of their vintage denim range in Spring 2011. In keeping with the brand's style, ethos and personality, we created a bottled cocktail 'Tiger Milk', labelled with beautiful original artwork. Later commissions by Roland Mouret continued the burgeoning partnership between the drinks and fashion worlds, one which we hope to see blossom in 2013...</span><br />
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69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-17482425748621249942012-12-17T14:17:00.000+00:002012-12-17T14:17:03.628+00:00Somerset Egg NogWith Christmas looming, below is the recipe for Somerset Egg Nog as featured in Tony's book 'Drinks'. The perfect excuse for a festive tipple.<br />
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<i>As with food, drink recipes (particularly punch) are passed down via families and friends, with each generation adding its own twists. I first sampled, and then inherited, this recipe from Dale Degroff, who in turn was taught it by his uncle Angelo. Dale's recipe uses bourbon and spiced rum and I exchanged these for cider brandy and cider.</i><br />
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<i>Cider brandy gives this drink a wonderful kick whilst simultaneously adding spice and dryness. The carbonation of the cider makes the mix fluffy. On paper the ingredients suggest a heavy, stocky drink, but the order and method ensure that the end product is light and yielding.</i><br />
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<b>4. </b>To garnish, grate fresh apple over the drink and top each cup with a sprinkling of grated nutmeg.69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-20213819874696206602012-12-08T16:53:00.000+00:002012-12-28T18:00:53.066+00:00The Essence of an Italian Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Here at Colebrooke Row this week we've been well and truly bitten by the festive bug. The bar is looking suitably Christmasy and we have a new winter libation by the name of St. James' Gate due next week for its first appearance on the Colebrooke menu. Featuring a delicious Guinness and treacle reduction, we love this new winter warmer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Inspired by Tony's inherited egg nog recipe, this week we've been looking into Italian traditions surrounding the Christmas holidays and salivating over food and drink recipes. In fact, the very essence of Christmas Day in Italy is family, food and talking, all of which occurs in abundance; whole families come together to celebrate with traditions that have been handed down for generations and to start new ones of their own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Celebrating Christmas with festive lights and decorations is something that the whole of Italy embraces. Often beginning around December 8th on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception, decorations tend to follow religious tradition and focus on the nativity scene. Almost every church will partake with their own nativity and they are often found outdoors in piazzas as well. Traditionally bonfires are usually held on Christmas Eve in a town's main square, especially in mountain areas. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Torino, in north Italy, is one of the most impressive places for lights. Over twenty kilometres of streets and squares are illuminated from late November to early January. In Verona, an illuminated arch with a huge star points to the Christmas market.</span></span><br />
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</span>Most Italians open their presents on Christmas Day morning or after lunch, although some with stoic patience wait until the Epiphany<span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">on January 6th. Traditionally, children receive a long, colourful stocking (<i>la calza</i>) filled to the brim with sweets if they have been good; but if they have been bad then Christmas morning will reveal a stocking full of 'coal' (black sugar). According to tradition, it's not Santa Claus who delivers gifts to expectant children across the world but rather La Befana - a kind witch. It is thought that she followed the three wise men but got lost and has been wandering ever since, handing out presents to children on Ephinany eve. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">Christmas Day lunch is an orgiastic symphony of food and talking. A stuffed pasta such as tortellini or cappelletti or crostini with liver pate often begins the day's eating. The next course of a stuffed goose, pig's foot stuffed with spiced mince meat, or il cotechino - a sausage made from pig's intestines are particularly popular in northern Italy although in southern Italy the seafood bonanza continues. An abundance of side dishes, such as artichokes cooked in white wine, or a gratin of vegetables roasted in the oven are also served up.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The sweet side of things are equally important to the Christmas meal. Many of the traditional recipes originated in convents, where the nuns made special types of sweets to mark major religious holidays and offered them to eminent and noble families from which their mother superiors came. Most Christmas sweets contain nuts and almonds as, according to peasant folklore, eating nuts aids the fertility of the land and those who dwell upon it. As such, post-Christmas lunch sweet-treats will include nougat, pandoro - a light, golden cake and panforte, a gingerbread with hazelnuts, honey and almonds.</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">The most traditional Christmas cake is the Milanese panettone. Legend has it that the cake was first baked in the sixteenth century, when a baker named Antonio fell in love with a princess and baked a golden, buttery egg bread to win her heart. Over the years the name of the bread evolved into panettone and in the nineteenth century, with the unification of Italy, the bread was embellished with candied red cherries and green citron as a patriotic gesture. </span></span>Delicious.</span>69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-43945754264765967852012-12-01T13:06:00.001+00:002012-12-28T18:03:51.844+00:00The Fifties and the Rise of Italian Fashion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More than simply fashion, a piece of clothing emblazoned with the words 'Made in Italy' is emblematic of a certain kind of lifestyle; it is a label that has become synonymous with good taste, attention to detail and quality. Italy has always maintained a rich and multifarious affair with fashion. However, a distinctive Italian look had yet to emerge until the 1950s - a decade of pioneering experimentation and a time in which Italy's sense of fashion bloomed.<br />
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As is its want, fashion is determined by both political and social changes. From the twelfth century, right through until the early twentieth century, Italy thrived as an exporter of luxury fashion items, textiles and small leather goods. However, an insecure government structure resulted in the absence of a unified Italian fashion centre and so estranged the country's fashion artists from competing in the global market. <br />
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For the first part of the twentieth century, France monopolised the world of fashion, with Paris recognised as both the epicentre of chic and the global leader in couture culture. Italy, like much of the world, looked abroad for the latest fashions; wealthy women travelled to Paris to buy their clothes; wealthy men had their suits and shoes custom-made in London. The Italian middle classes employed dressmakers and tailors to produce copies of the latest Paris and London styles. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christian Dior</td></tr>
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As World War Two drew to a close, a lapse in overseas communications waylaid France's domineering fashion force. By 1950, America was gaining on France's heels, offering an alternate view of fashion as comfortable, durable and sporty as opposed to tailored and refined. From this dichotomy came the rise of ready-to-wear. French couturiers such as Christian Dior and Jacques Fath were simplifying their designs to sell to American department stores and New York boutiques alike. The post-war Italian government actively sought ways to help the nation recover from the war's economic damage. One early success was the revival of traditional craft-based products - shoes, leather goods and other accessories, for an export market aimed at the United States, which at this point was the only large country in the world with substantial post-war purchasing power. The middle-ground that lay between the French and American take on ready-to-wear was provided by Italian fashion designers, who saw the need for collections which combined accessibility and comfort with refined, elegant design.<br />
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A crucial step in bringing Italian Fashion to an international platform was the first multi-designer Italian fashion show held in Florence in 1951. Florentine business man Giovan Battista successfully organised a fashion show of Italy's most promising designers including the pioneering works of Sorelle Fontana, Contessa Visconti, Emilio Pucci, Baroness Gallotti and Bertoli. The fashion press were enthused, reporting the show using rapturous phrases such as <i>seductive elegance </i>and <i>aristocratic ease</i>. The American fashion press in particular took notice and observed too that Italian dresses were coming onto the market at prices far lower than those for French creations. High-end American department stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdof Goodman, sent representatives to review the collection and consequently the designs of Capucci, Fabiani and Sorelle Fontana were transported back to the States. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Myrna Loy in <i>That Dangerous Age</i></td></tr>
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Rome's oldest and most prominent fashion house - Sorelle Fontana, is the success story of three sisters, Zoe, Micol and Giovanna who learnt dressmaking from their mother. Making the bold decision to move their dressmaking business to Rome at the beginning of the Second World War, the sister's glamorous designs were inspired by Christian Dior's New Look, which clung to the bust-line with full, swinging skirts. The three sisters had grand aspirations. Initially sought after by the Italian aristocracy, after the success of the Florence fashion show in 1951, the Fontana's developed their Italian informal but feminine style to appeal to the American market. This was a liberating moment for Italian fashion designers: for the first time they were commercially freed from foreign influence. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sorelle Fontana design in<i> La Dolce Vita</i></td></tr>
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Hollywood began to take notice. The Fontana designs first caught the eye of Myrna Loy who bought all her costumes from the sisters for her film <i>That Dangerous Age. </i>The following year they made Linda Christian's wedding dress when she married Tyrone Power. The cassock dress, based on robes worn by Roman Catholic priests and worn by Ava Gardner, and the infamous dress worn by Anita Ekberg in the <i>La Dolce Vita</i> fountain scene, catapulted the Fontana designs into the most exclusive wardrobes of the era. Gardner and Ekberg were the perfect Fontana client and model - unashamedly and voluptuously sexy and already known for their alluring and elegant dressing. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audrey Hepburn in Sorelle Fontana</td></tr>
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Glamorous and sophisticated evening gowns and cocktail dresses designed by Pucci, Contessa Visconit and Sorelle Fontana were worn by both Italian and Hollywood movie stars both on and off-screen, most notably by Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. First ladies soon took their cue and Jackie Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower continued to display Italian design in the public eye. In addition to breathtaking cocktail dresses, throughout the 1950s, competing fashion shows in Florence and Rome solidified Italy's reputation for Capri pants, 'palazzo pyjamas,' and other youthful, elegant sportswear.<br />
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The continuing unity between life and film brought worldwide recognition to Italy and propelled Rome into the running for most glamorous international city. During the fifties, Italy created an empire of post-war fashion, and enjoyed an influential and unforgettable decade of style sovereignty. 69 Colebrooke Rowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343575239924172226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-56287722402103700952012-11-13T20:40:00.000+00:002012-11-13T20:40:31.565+00:00Art Nouveau in the Streets of Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Colebrooke Row love affair with Paris began years ago but with the
opening of our new venture Bar Le Coq, this week we’ve fallen in love all over
again. Paris has a vibrant and exciting bar scene and Le Coq has arrived to
celebrate the 1970s and the synergy between traditional French glamour and the
raw energy of the New York underground music scene. Originally the site of a
Parisian wine bar, Le Coq graces a small backstreet in the 10</span><sup style="line-height: 115%;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 115%;">
Arrondissement.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Despite an incredibly
busy month we’ve had the opportunity to stroll along the autumn streets and in
doing so we couldn’t help but spend some time admiring the beautiful Art
Nouveau architecture<span style="font-size: small;"> and delving into <span style="font-size: small;">its rich and fascinating history.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Paris has always been a key-player in all European artistic movements. In the latter part of the nineteenth century it played home to core developments in the formation of Art Nouveau, many of which found themselves immortalised <span style="font-size: small;">upon</span> the streets of Paris. From the mid-1890s, the works of emerging young designers were exhibited at the gallery L'Art Nouveau and the city hosted the World's Fair of 1900 which helped to propel Art Nouveau into the limelight. </span></span></span><br />
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The most infamous of Parisian Art Nouveau architects is Hector Guimard
(1867- 1942)<span style="font-size: small;"> -</span> indeed, the Art nouveau style is often referred to as the <i>Style
Guimard</i> in France.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Guimard attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Arts Decoratifs in Paris from 1882 to 1885<span style="font-size: small;">.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Here Guimard</span> became
acquainted with the theories of Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc whose
rationalist ideas formed the inspiration for many of his ensuing
architectural endeavours. <span style="font-size: small;">Guimard's</span> first project was to design the interior of the "Au
Grand Neptune" restaurant in Paris and on the success of this followed numerous
commissions for private dwellings in Paris.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps Guimard's Parisian masterpiece is Castel Béranger,
which presides on the rue La Fontaine, but his best-known works - despite some initial scandel - are most likely to be
the entrances to the Paris Métro, some of which were completed just in time for
the 1900 World Exposition. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Based on the ornamented
structures of Viollet-le-Duc, Guimard utilised<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>an organic and tense linear style and
combin<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> it with cast iron for both structural and decorative
purposes</span></span>. By 1903 Hector
Guimard had designed numerous Métro entrances in the Art nouveau style,
featuring wrought iron, bronze and glass. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The results became instantly iconic.</span></span> These arches are testamount to the progressive<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>curiosity of Guimard and their construction serve as a precursor to industrial
standardisation.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>In this way, although Art
Nouveau often calls upon nature as a muse, it is really an urban style,
designed to grace the streets and interiors of modern industrial
cities<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we travelled to
the 7th arrondissement we found it to be home of many masterpieces of
the Art Nouveau architectural design. It is here that you can find many of Jules
Lavirotte’s incredible Art Nouveau masterpieces</span></span>. Jule<span style="font-size: small;">s </span>Lavirotte (1864-1928) was one of France’s most brilliant and
fearless Art Nouveau architects and designers. A contemporary of Hector
Guimard, Lavirotte is known for his freeform and audacious designs.
Although he worked very little in Paris, there are several examples of
his legacy which still stand proudly. The Countess de Montessuy, who lived on rue St-Dominique, was the first patron to enable Lavirotte to work
in Paris<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">O</span>n</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>rue Sedillot, close to his patron's dwelling, is a fantastic example
of Lavirotte's earliest and Baroque-influenced designs. <span style="font-size: small;">In the roof and windows<span style="font-size: small;">,</span> Lavirotte uses</span> design<span style="font-size: small;">s most commonly seen in Baroque</span>
French castles and he cle<span style="font-size: small;">verly </span>combines th<span style="font-size: small;">ese</span> with Art Nouveau iron-worked balconies. Now an Italian school, this building has an
impressive and imposing tower over the main entrance. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rue Sedillot</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lavirotte's presidence <span style="font-size: small;">in the 7th </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">arrondissement </span></span></span></span>continues wit<span style="font-size: small;">h his building</span></span></span></span></span> on the Square Rapp.
A lack of symmetry in the facade and elaborate balconies, each one
different from the rest, ensures that this building really stands out
from all others. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A short walk away at 29 Avenue Rapp is Lavirotte’s most
outlandish building. Designed in 1901 for his friend Alexandre Bigot,
the building has a wildly decorated facade and as ceramist himself,
Bigot worked in collaboration with his friend to execute the lavish and
ornate design. Lavirotte's gift for exuberant forms is clearly visible in this facade, whose
bravura set piece is the doorway. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unassumingly tucked into a quiet little street near the Champ de Mars park is one of the finest Art
Nouveau buildings in Paris. Designed by Octave Raquin in 1904, this
building earned the nickname “maison des arums,” or the house of the
lilies, because of its lavish floral and vegetate designs and
decorations. Here at Colebrooke Row we can't wait to spend more time in Paris <span style="font-size: small;">as <span style="font-size: small;">Bar Le Coq approaches <span style="font-size: small;">the busy Christmas season. No doubt <span style="font-size: small;">we<span style="font-size: small;">'ll fall <span style="font-size: small;">victim</span> to a <span style="font-size: small;">fresh</span> new wave of love as we walk the streets of Paris in the snow..<span style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beyond the sensational design details, film noir is
close to our hearts at Colebrooke Row because it cemented the rise of the <i>femme fatale</i>, the type of woman who inspired the creation of ‘The
Lipstick Rose’ cocktail. Film noir, or 'black cinema', refers to the dim city-scape backdrops and shadowed alleyways of film noir, but also to the dark and sordid motives of its characters. Among these characters is the <i>femme fatale,</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the French phrase for ‘deadly woman.’ However, the
French term is somewhat misleading: more accurately <i>femme fatales</i> are simply the queens of
compromising situations – the match for cynical, disillusioned </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">male protagonists who were susceptible to the charms of a beautiful but
promiscuous and seductive double-dealing femme. The exceptional frequency in
which women of a questionable virtue graced the screens of film noir was a focus that had become rare in Hollywood films after the mid-1930s and the end of the pre-Code era.</span></div>
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The pre-Code era is a shorthand term for a roughly five-year period in film history which began with the widespread adoption of sound in 1929 and ended in 1934, with the inauguration of the Production Code Administration and a policy of rigid censorship. Before July 1, 1934, restrictions on film content varied wildly depending on local laws and public taste. As a result, pre-Code films tend to be sexier, more adult, more cynical, socially critical and honest. Preferring the individual to the collective, these films were considerably politically strident.<br />
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The emerging jazz age and the Great Depression encouraged encouraged directors and screenwriters to seriously examine the moral and socio-political underpinnings of America and so came about a new wave of films that radically expanded the previously accepted moral thresholds. Without strict laws of censorship, actresses in the early thirties had access to a greater scope of female presentation. In this terrain the newly materialised, sexualised, self-sufficient New Woman - epitomised by Christian Dior's fashion in the 1920s, could truly flourish. Consequently, the injustices of corporate capitalism, divorce and particularly the sexual experimentation of women were now considered to be fitting subjects for the silver screen. Provocative and pro-active, women were presented as not just being aware of their sexuality but <i>in control </i>of their sexual prowess. It was not an unusual sight for women to waltz across the screen scantily clad in silken lingerie.<br />
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Many women in the early pre-Code era played prostitutes, however Norma Shearer in <i>The Divorcee </i>established a different pattern. She played a normal wife who, upon discovering her husband has been unfaithful, sets out on a voyage of sexual discovery. With nothing floozy-like about her, Shearer established the bedroom as safe territory for the ordinary woman, and so paved the way for Claudette Colbert in the <i>Smiling Lieutenant, </i>Loretta Young in <i>Employee's Entrance </i>and Bette Davis in <i>Ex-Lady. </i><br />
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In early American slang, what we now consider to be a <i>femme fatale </i>was dubbed a 'vamp', short for vampire, a term which was inspired by Rudyard Kipling's popular poem The Vampire which described the downfall of a seduced man:<br />
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<i>A fool there was and he made his prayer/ </i><i>(Even as you and I!)/ </i><i>To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair/ </i><i>(We called her the woman who did not care)/ </i><i>But the fool he called her his lady fair...</i><br />
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'A fool there was...' very much became the mantra for film noir male protagonists. Surfing the underbelly of many film noir movies is the failure on the part of male leads to recognise the dishonesty inherent in many of noir's principal women. Such <i>hamartia </i>is the downfall of the male characters in iconic noir films such as <i>Scarlet Street, The Locket </i>and <i>Angel Face. </i>In this sense, the power of the woman in film noir was, in part, channelled through wickedness. Women would employ their feminine wiles and alluring heightened sexuality to manipulate the make lead into becoming the fall-guy - often following a murder. However, after a betrayal or double-cross, she was frequently destroyed as well, often at the cost of the hero's life.<br />
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The more malevolent <i>femme fatale </i>tends to torture her lover in a relationship of -take-take as opposed to give-and-take, often denying any confirmation of her affection. <i>Double Indemnity </i>provides the archetype of this kind of <i>femme fatale </i>in Barbara Stanwyck's character Phyllis Dietrichson (an apparent nod to Marlene Dietrich of pre-Code era). The film's commercial success and seven Oscar nominations ensured that it became one of the most influential of the early noirs. A plethora of noir 'bad girls' would follows; characters played by Mary Astor, Veronica Lake, Lana Tuner and Jane Greer were particularly adept at driving men to the point of obsession and exhaustion. Jane Greer's unapologetic portrayal of a cunning female in <i>Out of the Past </i>epitomises the appeal and darkness of an authentic <i>femme fatale. </i>Greer truly possessed the perfect on-screen persona of post-war desolation. <div>
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However, it's not all sex and murder for the noir <i>femme fatale. </i>Although usually villainous, if not morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification and unease, <i>femme fatales </i>have also appeared as anti-heroines in some stories, and some even repent and become true heroines as the film concludes. Some film noirs even feature benevolent and heroic <i>femme fatales </i>who employ their wiles to ensnare the villain for the greater good. </div>
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Nonetheless, by the late fifties and into the sixties, strong, tough and independent women were replaced by assistants and consorts. Those who had once been leading ladies were now defined only by terms of their male protagonists who were increasingly portrayed as gallant Don Juan's or Casanovas - a fashion that was to reach its peak with the James Bond generation... However, the freedom and allure that defines the legacy of the <i>femme fatale </i>lives on in our hearts at Colebrooke Row.<br /><br />
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<b>All the more seductive</b> for its elusive nature, most scholars and critics continue to battle out their definitions as to what constitutes film noir. Essentially film noir is a cinematic term, first coined by French film critics, to describe the emerging trend of black and white American crime and detective films that first evolved in the 1940s and made their way onto French cinema screens in the years following World War Two. Whatever its scholarly definition, at Colebrooke Row we're huge fans of film noir, especially early classics such as Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, a black, moody thriller about a mild-mannered painter's unpunished and unsuspected murder of an amoral femme fatale. And the nightmarishly-dark, rapid-paced D.O.A, from cinematographer-director Rudolph Mate. Who couldn't fall in love with a movie that opens with the eerie line "I want to report a murder - mine?"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">With this balance in place, film noir carefully scales the terrain of fear, mistrust and bleakness and allows it to collide with moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Protagonists were often anti-heroes: the down-and-outs, conflicted detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, killers, crooks and politicians all of whom were absorbed in a gloomy underworld of corruption. In particular, the male figures of film noir were cynical and brooding, struggling to survive - and in the end, ultimately losing. For a period fraught with tension and insecurity, this bleak offering very much reflected the true feeling of the time and the jaded perspectives of such characters ultimately conveyed post-war society’s sense of injustice and moral conflict. Perhaps this is why there is rarely an optimistic or happy ending to a film noir, and this served as a refreshing alternative to the optimism of musicals and comedies that Hollywood were churning out at the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">With the argument around solidly defining film noir as a genre still prevalent, film noir can be more accurately described as a visual style or ‘look’ with low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions underpinning its output. In this sense, film noir is a </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><i>mood</i></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. Whatever it is – it’s instantly recognisable and that’s what makes it classic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The roots of this style are in German expressionism - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an artistic movement of the 1910s and 1920s which incorporated theatre, photography, painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as cinema. The opportunities offered by the fast growing Hollywood film industry, and later by the threat of Nazi power, led to the emigration of numerous important filmmakers working in Germany, many of whom had been directly involved in the Expressionist movement.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Films such as <i>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</i> (1920)<b> </b>or Fritz Lang's<b> </b><i>M</i> (1931), <i>Fury</i> (1936) and <i>You Only Live Once</i> (1937) arose from this era. In particular, films from German directors, such as F. W. Murnau, G. W. Pabst, and Robert Wiene, were noted for their stark camera angles and movements, chiaroscuro lighting and shadowy, high-contrast images - all elements of later film noir </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">set design that were used to enhance mood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Film noir story locations were often in murky and dark streets, dimly-lit and low rent apartments and hotel rooms of big cities, or abandoned warehouses. Interior settings took place in rooms which were defined by their dark, claustrophobic, gloomy appearances and venetian blinds with low-key or single-source lighting. Exteriors were often urban night scenes with deep shadows, dark alleyways, rain-slicked or mean streets with flashing neon lights. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Indeed, it is the lighting which really forms the crux of film noir aesthetics. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">To mirror the elliptical and twisting storylines of the film, lighting was used to trace themes: doomed love, brutality and moral corruption were emphasised by the shadowy, gloomy and grey lighting which produced a toxic atmosphere of sex and oppression. Lighting also played a huge part in characterisation; if a character </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">had vertical shadow lines cast across them this meant they were a threat, and if the lines were horizontal it meant that they were threatened</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px;">.</span></span></div>
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<b>It doesn’t take an optimist </b>to realise that architecture and design can influence behaviour, and the concept behind the Colebrooke Row design began when the bar was but a twinkle in our collective eyes. Before the site was even found, there was an unwavering determination to what sort of bar it was going to be: simple, intimate and elegant without pretension. Beyond the execution and delivery of drinks, it was paramount that the bar’s interior would promote a lively, conversation-inducing atmosphere. The Colebrooke space had to be one in which the relationship between burgeoning technology in the drinks craft and the simple pleasure of enjoying a cocktail amongst friends could play out. Tony’s Sicilian heritage and a mutual interest in Italian fifties design was key in this dream coming to fruition. The bar wouldn’t be a case of fooling time, of directly emulating a fifties Italian café, but rather it would incorporate these design tropes and update them for a unique modern-day drinking experience.<br />
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<b></b>During the early fifties, the horrors of World War Two lingered both in the mind and in the economy of Europe. Across the continent, the public were desperate to forget rationing, to forget deprivation and dilapidation and, in Italy in particular, people were still determined to enjoy themselves. During these post-way years Italy became a hub of creativity, forming the base for a new generation of innovative minds. From a cultural viewpoint, the years after World War Two began the transformation of Italy into the modern country we know today.
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Italy assumed a leading role in post-war design, establishing a reputation for style and sophistication in a number of design fields including automobiles, furniture and furnishings, lighting and glass, ceramics, interior design and fashion. These disparate fields were characterised by a modernist approach, utilising materials that were formally regarded as ephemeral or makeshift products, which allowed objects to be successfully reinvented.
Although moral standards and censorship remained high, the country began a process that led to what we now consider as Italy’s traditional, laid back lifestyle – a perfect accompaniment to which was a glass of wine or aperitif. Bars and cafes – particularly tiny wine bars - sprung up in cobbled stoned alley ways, small in stature but big in inspiration and designed to get rowdy.<br />
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These back-street cafes were filled within the hour of their opening and consequently patrons would bump shoulders so that soon there were times when everyone in the bar knew each other. These cafes were pure celebrations of the aperitvo hour - Italy’s stop-gap between lunch and late dinner, that glorious time in which to unwind from work and begin the evening. Spritz after Spritz would nourish a whole post-war generation where labourers, writers, artists, musicians and the occasional crime lord would eat, drink and cause a rabble.
When we came across Colebrooke Row, it was clear that this was a venue that had the potential to encapsulate the alluring Italian café style. Tucked away in the corner of a dead-end, North London street no. 69 has a light footfall and this ensured that people would have to seek out the bar on purpose. The space inside was small, with a beautiful original staircase creeping up the back, inspiring a living-room feel.<br />
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In terms of furnishings, although the bar should be stylish, it was essential that at all costs it didn’t come across as vain. We looked closely at timeless Italian designers such as Vico Magistretti, Gae Aulenti and the Castiglioni brothers all of whom immortalised themselves by promoting streamline, intuitive designs that shunned excess. When questioned about his methods of work Magistretti often commented ‘la semplicita’ e’la cosa piu’ difficile del mondo’: simplicity is the most difficult thing in the world, and this statement resonated with the Colebrooke ethos.<br />
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In post-war Italy, the exceptional designer Gae Aulenti was working to create installations, lighting and interior designs that belied any one style or influence. Rather than follow a trend or fashion she designed only to allow the focus of a room to be its occupants. Aulenti believed that people make the room a room, and any design feature which overpowers this neglects the harmony of good design. Her own style was modest, and Vogue quotes her as saying; "Advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against passing trends...and to return to lasting values." This attitude is clearly reflected in her designs: elegant, unusual but always highly functional, Aulenti’s work is testament to the uniquely Italian balance of imagination and functioning beauty. In particular, both Aulenti’s and Magistretti’s simple designs for tables formed the inspiration for the low rise tables that fill the floor at Colebrooke Row. Their height is conducive to the leaning- in- closer of those who sit at them. When the bar opens, the small tables are quickly filled, sometimes by two groups at the same time who then embark on cocktail comparisons, sharing their thoughts about the drink in hand or perhaps the day’s events.<br />
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As evening progresses, the small room begins to take on a life of its own. In this way, the design encourages a natural surge in conversation, for people’s spirits to rise and as the volume of the patrons increase, the sound of Italian fifties crooners from the speakers fades into the background.
The lighting of the bar contributes greatly to this dynamic. During the fifties and sixties the Castiglioni brothers produced a remarkable number of popular designs. Their lamps, in particular the "Luminator" (1955) and "Bulb" (1957), employed exposed light-bulbs which shone out from a radical minimalist structure.<br />
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These iconic designs were the inspiration for the vintage light-bulbs which hang over each square table in the bar. Naturally devised to create a darkened but soft atmosphere in addition to serving as a practical light source, the light can be dimmed to reflect the evening’s mood in all its transfigurations.<br />
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Bygone days of Italian lifestyle and design may have inspired the bar but a passion for modern techniques and innovation as an applied philosophy control the product expertly crafted by the Colebrooke bartenders. <br />
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Tony Conigliaro: It’s a term that has limiting implications. We work with a far wider inter-disciplinary outlook as we take on projects with designers, perfumers, chocolatiers, and architects to name but a few. To use that term implies we look at things purely through the lens of science, which is simply not always the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The minute you start defining things as this style or that style they become dead museum pieces. We are far more creatively dynamic than that. We are always moving, discovering beyond what we have already done and what is already out there by not following trends or styles - unless we are subverting them!</span></div>
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There are only a few place left to get your "Nawlin's" swing on at Colebrooke row. The class will be a look into Bourbon and the wonderful cocktails you can create with the infamous spirit.<br />
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August will also be hosting some very special Masterclasses. August 4th will see a Whisky Based Cocktail session, at the usual time of 2-4 for the cost of £40. That is followed up on august 25th when the bar with no name will delve into the world of champagne cocktails, to look at how we can get the most out of our bubbles.<br />
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As always, contact maria@69colebrookerow.com for details and to book.DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-3848881973874022392012-05-03T12:58:00.000+01:002012-05-03T13:00:17.535+01:00Live Sessions at 69 Colebrooke Row throughout May<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viper's Dream are a London based acoustic jazz band. Repertoire ranges across the entire history of jazz, from swing and bebop to latin, bossa nova and original compositions. Special emphasis is on the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a sound located somewhere between the deep south and South Wales, Gumbo La La play the rootsiest honky-tonk, zydeco and R&B in London. They like nothing better than to play foot-stompin' tunes that you can dance the Texas polka to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To hear a series of live songs from the band click <a href="http://www.gumbolala.co.uk/music.html" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blues piano player and singer Eric Ranzoni is a full-time musician. He's both British and Italian, being born in London in 1969 from Italian parents but having spent the majority of his life between Rome and Milan. Since moving back to London in 2003, he's gradually gained a reputation as a skilled and versatile pianist with a warm singing voice, coupled with a knack to entertain a crowd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Official website - <a href="http://www.ericranzoni.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span></div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-43235854561168792522012-04-26T19:53:00.000+01:002012-04-26T19:53:45.536+01:00Kofler & Kompanie - Italians Do It Better<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pop up bar and restaurant launches on May 9th and is slated to run through till June 30th. The bar will be run by 69 Colebrooke Row, who are taking applicant now. Visit their Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150769631526602&id=86554186601">HERE</a> for details or email a C.V to melissa@69colebrookerow.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kofler & Kompanie returns to 50 St James’s Street, in one of the most prestigious areas in London this May with the next instalment of the internationally acclaimed dining experience, Pret A Diner. This specific series of dinners, named <i>Italians do it Better</i>, will be spearheaded by Michelin-starred chef Giorgio Locatelli who will create traditional-style Italian menus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hosted at the iconic 50 St James’s Street, Pret A Diner <i>"Italians do it Better"</i> will be the final event within this beautiful Grade II listed building before it is closed for a full transformation this autumn. 2011 saw Pret A Diner host numerous series of experimental dinners spanning from a skyscrapper in Frankfurt, a coin mint in Berlin, a historic film casino in Munich, and down in the Old Vic Tunnels with Lazarides Gallery’s Minotaur exhibit during London Restaurant Week. In 2012, Pret A Diner aims to redefine what to expect from a dining experience by selecting the world’s best chefs, the most unusual locations and exquisite thought-provoking art pieces to turn blank canvases into unforgettable evenings. </span></div>
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Django Reinhardt has astounded and thrilled numerous generations of guitar players and jazz lovers with his amazing command of the guitar. January 24th, 1910 at Liberchies Belgium, Django was born into the open air, rambling lifestyle of his gypsy parents. At the age of eight, his mother's tribe settled near the belt of fortifications that surrounded the old Paris, near the Choisy gate. Though born into poverty Django had the soul of a nobleman and this natural elegance of bearing and attitude expressed itself in his music.<br />
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It was at an early age Django became attracted to music. When twelve years old he received his first instrument, a banjo/guitar that was given to him by a neighbor who had noticed his keen interest in music. He quickly learned to play, mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched. He was soon astounding adults with his ability on the guitar, and before he was thirteen he began his musical career playing with popular accordionist Guerino at a dance hall on the Rue Monge. Since Django could not read or write at the time "Jiango Renard" was how his name appeared on these records.
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On November 2nd, 1928 at one o'clock in the morning the 18 year old Django returned to the caravan that was now the home of himself and his new wife. The caravan was filled with celluloid flowers his wife had made to sell the following day. Django heard what he thought was a mouse among the flowers, bent down with a candle to look. The wick from the candle fell into the highly flammable celluloid flowers and the caravan was almost instantly set alight. Django wrapped himself in a blanket to shield him from the flames. He and his wife made it across the blazing room to safety outside, but his left hand, and his right side from knee to waist were badly burned.<br />
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Django was bedridden for eighteen months. During this time he was given a guitar, and with great determination Django created a whole new fingering system built around the two fingers on his left hand that had full mobility. His fourth and fifth digits of the left hand were permanently curled towards the palm due to the tendons shrinking from the heat of the fire. He could use them on the first two strings of the guitar for chords and octaves but complete extension of these fingers was impossible. His soloing was all done with the index and middle fingers! Film clips of Django show his technique to be graceful and precise, almost defying belief.<br />
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1934 proved to be the most important year of his life. The Quintet of the Hot Club of France was born! As the fates would have it, the Quintet was formed by a chance meeting of Django and Stéphane Grappelli. A band of fourteen musicians including Django, Stéphane, Roger Chaput, and Louis Vola were commissioned to play at the Hotel Cambridge at teatime. During intermission Django would find a corner backstage and play his guitar. One day Stéphane joined in and both were so pleased with the exchange they went on to play together more and more frequently joined by Roger Chaput (guitar), Louis Vola (bass), and eventually Django's
Django played and recorded throughout the war years substituting Hubert Rostaing's clarinet for Stephen's violin.<br />
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He avoided the fate of many of his kinfolk who went to their deaths in the Nazi concentration camps. After the war he was rejoined by Stéphane and they again played and recorded. He toured briefly with Duke Ellington in America and returned to Paris where he continued his career until 1951 when he retired to the small village of Samois sur Seine and subsequently died in 1953.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite often having a slightly tainted reputation in some modern bars for being over sweet or sickly, sours do have an extremely rich history within the cocktail world. They were first described, in print, by Jerry Thomas in 1862 within his book <i>How To Mix Drinks. </i>A sour is described as a mixed drink containing a base liquor, lemon / lime juice, egg white and a sweetener. You scan broadly say a sour should be 2 part liquor, 1 part souring agent, 1/2 part sweetener. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many variations including Margaritas and Sidecars which include a second liquor such as cointreau or triple sec. The White Lady (aka Chelsea Sidecar, Delilah and Lillian Forever) can be equated with a sidecar but with the brandy substituted for gin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's origin is, as always, under dispute. One story come from Harry MacElhone, a bartender at Ciro's Club in 1919. His original recipe called for creme de menthe, which was later substituted for gin when he worked in Harry's New York Bar in 1929. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A slightly more popular version comes from Harry Cradock, of The Savoy. The recipe appears n his book <i>Savoy Cocktail Book</i> published in 1930. Further evidence came from a Channel 4 documentary where Joe Gilmore, who was also a head bartender at The Savoy, talks about how the drink was a favourite of Laurel and Hardy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recipe has not undergone much transformation in recent times. In the US during the 1940's it enjoyed a fleeting relationship with egg-white, as reported by Oscar Haimo in 1943 and subsequently reached the UK shores in 1954 in a book called Shake Again with Eddie where egg-white is included as a side note. A variation also exists called a Perfect Lady which substitutes peach brandy for cointreau. This version took first prize in the Empire Cocktail Competition, 1936. </span></div>
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</div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-72702690210937482742012-04-19T16:40:00.004+01:002012-04-19T17:01:09.122+01:00Advertising in 1950's<span ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaz5E-XkCN-0ZwF1pMDSqeSlom0hs9r9lRtQB4Kp2wpdGxXlJF6QakzD-9xm65qreZus-H3bpfLjlS-zRH5jNynOKpaGqkODzzvRffvg5WFJdW3kT7_Qx__9f2cb6Hs27HjLYbT6FyHFCE/s1600/ads-10-600x411.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaz5E-XkCN-0ZwF1pMDSqeSlom0hs9r9lRtQB4Kp2wpdGxXlJF6QakzD-9xm65qreZus-H3bpfLjlS-zRH5jNynOKpaGqkODzzvRffvg5WFJdW3kT7_Qx__9f2cb6Hs27HjLYbT6FyHFCE/s320/ads-10-600x411.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140314396516850" /></a> </span><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >The 1950's not only produced some of the greatest cinema classics that are still being watched to this day, but it also saw an evolution in advertising. Adverts in this time looked at utility, and would often feature statements, that now, it would be hard to call anything but sexist, or completely fabricated. </span></p><p class="p1" style="text-align: center;font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6JPlf2yb8IqXyZz4vI-rAcQ2TNTXXgW0f5SMkzzpNHZh1WD8aq4aOCfcpPESeLOQ0Py0I9V5IwYI_XIb5ppEIL4De3Uwt4SY29qAFiY_ukTmQuFP30HEmb_Vhv3oIqGOtNFGTiChJ5F4/s1600/Marlboro+Mummy.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6JPlf2yb8IqXyZz4vI-rAcQ2TNTXXgW0f5SMkzzpNHZh1WD8aq4aOCfcpPESeLOQ0Py0I9V5IwYI_XIb5ppEIL4De3Uwt4SY29qAFiY_ukTmQuFP30HEmb_Vhv3oIqGOtNFGTiChJ5F4/s320/Marlboro+Mummy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733142414609459554" style="cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 320px; " /></a></p><span ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReQsvuP6_6VSObs0D2U_IfcOE8kppRgoH1gTK53uFfT93csCHSZssLNfmgIUdtrXgjulWKWe-DfuaBs3K4ngXCwRYqX6q9emPqCWkW3idj6a3LoZDC1Ojc9iRuXFp0p8c5aV5kOdmC_dc/s1600/print-ads-through-the-decades-the-50s-391.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReQsvuP6_6VSObs0D2U_IfcOE8kppRgoH1gTK53uFfT93csCHSZssLNfmgIUdtrXgjulWKWe-DfuaBs3K4ngXCwRYqX6q9emPqCWkW3idj6a3LoZDC1Ojc9iRuXFp0p8c5aV5kOdmC_dc/s320/print-ads-through-the-decades-the-50s-391.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140310102782050" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW2CyATZctMi47tNaVPQh-RgO-e3WRYfgvg_oPQN2xRiqORo1ucnAeyMWOU7b10VPvD0bLZhGNcFTL6PHzU4_uU2YkWJVXUVG8vHR9aqhumFwt2rAJWATIn8KbtLKkEZFW9BX8Ho1aCUh/s1600/photocopiers.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW2CyATZctMi47tNaVPQh-RgO-e3WRYfgvg_oPQN2xRiqORo1ucnAeyMWOU7b10VPvD0bLZhGNcFTL6PHzU4_uU2YkWJVXUVG8vHR9aqhumFwt2rAJWATIn8KbtLKkEZFW9BX8Ho1aCUh/s320/photocopiers.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140296132052306" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdqPxkmBCliQC-zTWffCS33s2KkW44WvGoj4ylohj63VtfQ18_QM8MNnnNiGJhG9IYqxDXb-YQUmQSH2U-0qy86gegpwWZm7iN9loFfKf0fnQqiir_VVG3Snkwn09dSBtnUvIpv5ImV2O/s1600/6a00d83451ccbc69e20120a6961b1f970c-400wi.png" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCdqPxkmBCliQC-zTWffCS33s2KkW44WvGoj4ylohj63VtfQ18_QM8MNnnNiGJhG9IYqxDXb-YQUmQSH2U-0qy86gegpwWZm7iN9loFfKf0fnQqiir_VVG3Snkwn09dSBtnUvIpv5ImV2O/s320/6a00d83451ccbc69e20120a6961b1f970c-400wi.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140287121963810" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh14-V0rapj0iROA6zajZQ-YAwqByyTeYzt8MKGE8C8vAz6CiW14z8HkumYaif5aQf3_f8NupxXlSW9CxsDa5UxERc0BT-INZTy5EVZIgWhw1zKu69p4Z0lFfyI4KOZtxrYENAq8Z2GxI7P/s1600/zdu704l9sjel69.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh14-V0rapj0iROA6zajZQ-YAwqByyTeYzt8MKGE8C8vAz6CiW14z8HkumYaif5aQf3_f8NupxXlSW9CxsDa5UxERc0BT-INZTy5EVZIgWhw1zKu69p4Z0lFfyI4KOZtxrYENAq8Z2GxI7P/s320/zdu704l9sjel69.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140052692684786" /></a> </span><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >Adds were made for the entire family, within which everyone had very distinct roles. Showing off excess flesh was rare and most and women were often depicted as housewives, looking after the home while the man took care of money and business. </span></p><span ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwrutJgJ_0Xw_M1tmduzKqDKL71CdFJuuhu1UVpdbVN4KrHSYeLTHHAXeuukXDiUij1FgAhBqOrKHaRDXTSLSwoYoz-SE7_G-7LPnv3qyCfsmUBx1sQVLWxV5pT7NOSlxVs8iOfLk_vI1/s1600/6a00d83451ccbc69e201156f622e8b970b-400wi.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWwrutJgJ_0Xw_M1tmduzKqDKL71CdFJuuhu1UVpdbVN4KrHSYeLTHHAXeuukXDiUij1FgAhBqOrKHaRDXTSLSwoYoz-SE7_G-7LPnv3qyCfsmUBx1sQVLWxV5pT7NOSlxVs8iOfLk_vI1/s320/6a00d83451ccbc69e201156f622e8b970b-400wi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140048881709826" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1UMhUOSL4DfJKG422IGfUNklwRU4macbKiXwaAdKRBkSdabFkFwGCnKVwveI5CLTLaJ6GJVQ-R2auMNBYAYtswLfxhudjc3L3TI0phvfoCYTjMf8goAMpgiUzZvSi8e5GLjrzfKtLPaU/s1600/old-hickory-ad-3-b.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1UMhUOSL4DfJKG422IGfUNklwRU4macbKiXwaAdKRBkSdabFkFwGCnKVwveI5CLTLaJ6GJVQ-R2auMNBYAYtswLfxhudjc3L3TI0phvfoCYTjMf8goAMpgiUzZvSi8e5GLjrzfKtLPaU/s320/old-hickory-ad-3-b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140040195486114" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7sJpTqO3JP_2zR-Alemw1zNyc0d0bNRzGF6sSq5jwIm624tmX-5U7SHaIumUqmQHrdzMcF7YBJAEQlZ-OBj6OIY4pvV6IRMGvmnYLYLDtOlz0dOg3JOKS2ArnMhgShzFTrULuY9kpTPy/s1600/coca-cola_help_yourself_to_refreshment_1950.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7sJpTqO3JP_2zR-Alemw1zNyc0d0bNRzGF6sSq5jwIm624tmX-5U7SHaIumUqmQHrdzMcF7YBJAEQlZ-OBj6OIY4pvV6IRMGvmnYLYLDtOlz0dOg3JOKS2ArnMhgShzFTrULuY9kpTPy/s320/coca-cola_help_yourself_to_refreshment_1950.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140030604623890" /></a> </span><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span >Alcohol was either depicted as a homely drink, to have amongst loved ones or as something that solidified your social standing amongst other business men.</span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKAOI7OumwggzRgCyFC6abDz4k-TajfLJtvVrPNydH1dGwz8XYjwwTg9heD1jISZzGGRUN5303ZkOAp0bg8NikodNTbU7gkcaIKP_2W6cxikzsIUDXugsOzOIyLSy_MpjuHSi4vQNWqvR/s1600/2120398483_0bdee2bdc3.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKAOI7OumwggzRgCyFC6abDz4k-TajfLJtvVrPNydH1dGwz8XYjwwTg9heD1jISZzGGRUN5303ZkOAp0bg8NikodNTbU7gkcaIKP_2W6cxikzsIUDXugsOzOIyLSy_MpjuHSi4vQNWqvR/s320/2120398483_0bdee2bdc3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733140028140665250" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwifaMUB66cB31ibY0v2GAA87OcMFOx_aaZwuhyYEeTcvIMKtf9enUdlbdoiX90mddG3NTk5KbUCIIAF_-hY3ogVvK9Za3cbGJpA88bsaUEWq2iOzHlNZzU8vn1Wc0uaHCP7qS6Hyd6KWM/s1600/cream_of_kentuck_vintage_ad.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwifaMUB66cB31ibY0v2GAA87OcMFOx_aaZwuhyYEeTcvIMKtf9enUdlbdoiX90mddG3NTk5KbUCIIAF_-hY3ogVvK9Za3cbGJpA88bsaUEWq2iOzHlNZzU8vn1Wc0uaHCP7qS6Hyd6KWM/s320/cream_of_kentuck_vintage_ad.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733139774490474770" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPSFzv9tIffgI-S12qpUCHMNP1OeDZDzw6iqeJ0P-yE0hYCRN8dhLVl5GX_tAJm4ZGW39dhEjVFeYrsc7RkkhkKbQoNHT91woAQfBXR4pUrNH1bEKAjw5bg_OnOZfIOx487H8jda1vQNr/s1600/bd29497.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPSFzv9tIffgI-S12qpUCHMNP1OeDZDzw6iqeJ0P-yE0hYCRN8dhLVl5GX_tAJm4ZGW39dhEjVFeYrsc7RkkhkKbQoNHT91woAQfBXR4pUrNH1bEKAjw5bg_OnOZfIOx487H8jda1vQNr/s320/bd29497.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733139766893722018" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1jBZtDDgHedYhzm0_v9ZDwVEFdLEMirh2KZeWMimhYMDk9vUeTGdxD971DQuw-yO7Gm6nOgVjNWOGsW2Rs8rZGN0GBpDgj4JbFxt7jNTG3IBnDUGgfZKCNa7VV137rBeeD9kV1JktQxi/s1600/vintage_alcohol_ad.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW1jBZtDDgHedYhzm0_v9ZDwVEFdLEMirh2KZeWMimhYMDk9vUeTGdxD971DQuw-yO7Gm6nOgVjNWOGsW2Rs8rZGN0GBpDgj4JbFxt7jNTG3IBnDUGgfZKCNa7VV137rBeeD9kV1JktQxi/s320/vintage_alcohol_ad.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733139759187822434" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMN2KquI77x435LAjWcHaX__Nqbu53-ra47dRkl40cQvWyuxbL26K3kGu0ExIfG2FluhYBLvPN3GzmuVSf8u2jo-WV-2uERO7Ym_1Dc_dQxf23rrnQpKJN2sWmbtF5ifTOBLNhRLJEN6jq/s1600/ad-1947-kinsey-gin.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMN2KquI77x435LAjWcHaX__Nqbu53-ra47dRkl40cQvWyuxbL26K3kGu0ExIfG2FluhYBLvPN3GzmuVSf8u2jo-WV-2uERO7Ym_1Dc_dQxf23rrnQpKJN2sWmbtF5ifTOBLNhRLJEN6jq/s320/ad-1947-kinsey-gin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5733139757502796146" /></a><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><span><u><br /></u></span></div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-16519450712215867622012-04-12T17:25:00.005+01:002012-04-12T18:46:37.948+01:00The Aviation Cocktail<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqNd4b5iK8tqB2s_1zTFUCjNdAgPRxZSgBub2cXfiThPbguXgKw6e-19Faa8XwulG5srYZkEcwd-TuYUfZurq8RtbXtFAeHJyAe6XwTGVpcIUv2rK5F91Rd-Vdh-pmukTeWhVLqUjiKq7/s1600/El-Bart-Dry-Gin.jpg" style="text-align: left; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqNd4b5iK8tqB2s_1zTFUCjNdAgPRxZSgBub2cXfiThPbguXgKw6e-19Faa8XwulG5srYZkEcwd-TuYUfZurq8RtbXtFAeHJyAe6XwTGVpcIUv2rK5F91Rd-Vdh-pmukTeWhVLqUjiKq7/s320/El-Bart-Dry-Gin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730567332435368146" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiKfKvnzElzj2M9YeZyZGEQ4q4yZ0rQ7VUviG0I84niclBBJ-XMY8HBWXwGK9zgTJ4XBwcJSH_GjHUUGlDiJft2k4QUaV3K5AmRGoe58S-oe9IvkXUQtKmMLAvlp6Ri7sl1aho4IhA2Dd/s1600/Savoy.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiKfKvnzElzj2M9YeZyZGEQ4q4yZ0rQ7VUviG0I84niclBBJ-XMY8HBWXwGK9zgTJ4XBwcJSH_GjHUUGlDiJft2k4QUaV3K5AmRGoe58S-oe9IvkXUQtKmMLAvlp6Ri7sl1aho4IhA2Dd/s320/Savoy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730571678590436802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px; " /></a><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; " >Created by the head bartender at the Hotel Wallick, by head bartender Hugo Ensslin in New York reportedly in 1911. The cocktail was was first published in 1916, in Ensslin's book "Recipe for Mixed Drinks"</span></p><p class="p1" style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIO7IC7lrxFpd5IKBAF_gDsEQVH03rQ7popXmZZKothBgPelRpH2jclx955orXnV9lZ9uUuw-YCag-OEDRQv1tGfyLg0YZSGN1LCW1QlpjeThubypnwsKrPfWuPEH5ld12-814s10__jGK/s1600/VP896%257EFlorio-e-Cinzano-1930-Posters.jpg" style="text-align: left; "><span ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIO7IC7lrxFpd5IKBAF_gDsEQVH03rQ7popXmZZKothBgPelRpH2jclx955orXnV9lZ9uUuw-YCag-OEDRQv1tGfyLg0YZSGN1LCW1QlpjeThubypnwsKrPfWuPEH5ld12-814s10__jGK/s320/VP896%257EFlorio-e-Cinzano-1930-Posters.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730565370614887730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></p><div><span style="font-size: 100%; " >At the time the recipe went 1 and a 1/2 oz. El Bart gin, 3/4 oz. lemon juice, 2 dashes maraschino liquor and 2 dashes creme de violette. Although we take it for granted now creme de violette was not such an easy thing to come by in 1916.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZatwAZRTpSYeycx6PMsNLzVVwxnn7_tUq-j2x_fUGNjH-Qksd3mzZhGlHQMvbfw8t59t_mz5ZvXoCRGIev-r1r_1pv349dnAbqmK8OrM1daGfgWnH2oKmIav38nFz4hW6mFDSDbHXPsaK/s1600/images.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZatwAZRTpSYeycx6PMsNLzVVwxnn7_tUq-j2x_fUGNjH-Qksd3mzZhGlHQMvbfw8t59t_mz5ZvXoCRGIev-r1r_1pv349dnAbqmK8OrM1daGfgWnH2oKmIav38nFz4hW6mFDSDbHXPsaK/s320/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730567927188585570" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 268px; " /></a></span></div><p class="p2" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCQthvcoxKh7cwqmCVJw6nW9Mmz1bxtJVo4XMw9uaxw6o7uKXGZvmXr6ZqqrHGlWACST-E4LcH0znDqmnF4MO1hSz4aBumNvOTc1b11zG43voQRM3Zyv-Ac0i5BwYs5sV9Vjd12XTHzys/s1600/enhanced-buzz-10170-1334089559-1.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLCQthvcoxKh7cwqmCVJw6nW9Mmz1bxtJVo4XMw9uaxw6o7uKXGZvmXr6ZqqrHGlWACST-E4LcH0znDqmnF4MO1hSz4aBumNvOTc1b11zG43voQRM3Zyv-Ac0i5BwYs5sV9Vjd12XTHzys/s320/enhanced-buzz-10170-1334089559-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730565388060209410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 320px; " /></a></span></p><p class="p2" style="text-align: center; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><i><span >"I only drink before and after dinner"</span></i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span ><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The drink really gained notoriety after being used in Harry Craddock's legendary book "Savoy Cocktail Club" published in 1930. The recipe had changed though. Creme de violette was omitted and the proportions changed slightly to simply 2 thirds gin, 1 third lemon juice and to two dashes on maraschino.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">This is the recipe that remains to this day, although due to our palettes a dash of sugar is often added to ease the sour and tart flavour the cocktail is so well known for.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgXH-Lp77RaoEekV4RjaEhpza3p6dU_bF2103Kfj2CaWX8J_Xw_khbW1DqrkRcSVi-64GGbxlb-4AKmfDwu8uZVCudl0ozz4l5fmd1gkrycvlcae2gp4UQgOeQv9sZjOj8pY-4VIwGJGE/s1600/products-diege.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgXH-Lp77RaoEekV4RjaEhpza3p6dU_bF2103Kfj2CaWX8J_Xw_khbW1DqrkRcSVi-64GGbxlb-4AKmfDwu8uZVCudl0ozz4l5fmd1gkrycvlcae2gp4UQgOeQv9sZjOj8pY-4VIwGJGE/s320/products-diege.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730565380155378962" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " /></a></span></div> <p class="p2" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; " >The drink has never been held in high fashionable as teem, this is largely blamed on the loss of creme de violette which meant the cocktail became a very acquired taste. it was only in 2007 creme de violette resurfaced in the US after it was lost completely during the 1960's.</span></p> <p class="p2" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVB0yxBEhkIdrzcYiwzn9FMVnQcSpGnMrt3gswLeH5KSDZMvc37VWWxTasTXkWzuhmvij7wVXfFBCQl0DqZLVjobmwrgRgh7j_vmjxFkGJHg9mOVlHKA8N1szIHGeepu68y3NYYoFhO8/s1600/exit-smiling-movie-poster-1926-1020524918%255B3%255D.jpg"><span ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiepVB0yxBEhkIdrzcYiwzn9FMVnQcSpGnMrt3gswLeH5KSDZMvc37VWWxTasTXkWzuhmvij7wVXfFBCQl0DqZLVjobmwrgRgh7j_vmjxFkGJHg9mOVlHKA8N1szIHGeepu68y3NYYoFhO8/s320/exit-smiling-movie-poster-1926-1020524918%255B3%255D.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730565410447014082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px; " /></span></a></p><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; " >Though the cocktails history isn't mired in confusion like so many, it has raised a heated debate about original vs popular recipes. In this case it simply boils down to whether creme de violette should be included or not. Although the violette does add an interesting colour and depth to the drink, we are now blessed with so many different varieties of gin that the drink can have as many subtleties and taste desirable without it, if you so choose.</span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%; " ><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrf6hxrBMeGQSGavfOg5m0cv_uVwsGyKdL1Y7uiAwHi4Wnl4GSLI4Q5tMFNGnJeCfzcjGfAvlklJmamXwN7_UDY_KZ6GM-9zKxPory8XU-nD5Yam9_CmfGFzfZUV4Ia1jF_NgliXNzQaZB/s1600/1930s.jpg"><span ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrf6hxrBMeGQSGavfOg5m0cv_uVwsGyKdL1Y7uiAwHi4Wnl4GSLI4Q5tMFNGnJeCfzcjGfAvlklJmamXwN7_UDY_KZ6GM-9zKxPory8XU-nD5Yam9_CmfGFzfZUV4Ia1jF_NgliXNzQaZB/s320/1930s.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730565398647811490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIPDsgXd9KK6sa91-aF4u2x0EpxZqueK6SEsqd1-PYUX53Dk19zWdigyOW7uVXgLsVmhA6xIGZ7jpvCBFobjkZPZa6gpbcNZRefMiXATantdLzBB3sjImXeBneqdifd5qBlMESwzeP1G3/s1600/20832_1079_1_lg.jpg"><span ><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdIPDsgXd9KK6sa91-aF4u2x0EpxZqueK6SEsqd1-PYUX53Dk19zWdigyOW7uVXgLsVmhA6xIGZ7jpvCBFobjkZPZa6gpbcNZRefMiXATantdLzBB3sjImXeBneqdifd5qBlMESwzeP1G3/s320/20832_1079_1_lg.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5730567317604132642" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></div><div><br /></div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-82152969762630268382012-04-05T10:49:00.006+01:002012-04-06T11:54:08.937+01:00Negroni<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgktCWdFB9H2-KMGiFMK5d5G5NLQdBHBhwdcGz-eVwkkomCyBFwWebcsCYaFTNSioTrDacx3CkmF6HWeEqBLIKNYKu_DdRrIt-3UMAfH5PnoGAqGYQ5Gnois9EiXT0q49p-35y2RJZYvHty/s1600/Negroni.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgktCWdFB9H2-KMGiFMK5d5G5NLQdBHBhwdcGz-eVwkkomCyBFwWebcsCYaFTNSioTrDacx3CkmF6HWeEqBLIKNYKu_DdRrIt-3UMAfH5PnoGAqGYQ5Gnois9EiXT0q49p-35y2RJZYvHty/s320/Negroni.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5728239292123925410" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e3lMBf-RZp4dKmNIXMS2uSacQoNLtnjBAMlBxAIUICI5H_AMrZ4wyyQ_NCvJSESqHoY8xb-HSwviWav8kkus60Kc9isJ4m1fkj8_5yjBKbY4vP58vR7AF2K1lMLxjSnTtr5ma12vHUZO/s1600/enrico-sacchetti-bitter-campari-1921.jpg" style="text-align: left; font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e3lMBf-RZp4dKmNIXMS2uSacQoNLtnjBAMlBxAIUICI5H_AMrZ4wyyQ_NCvJSESqHoY8xb-HSwviWav8kkus60Kc9isJ4m1fkj8_5yjBKbY4vP58vR7AF2K1lMLxjSnTtr5ma12vHUZO/s320/enrico-sacchetti-bitter-campari-1921.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727856128109739506" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left; "></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The law of classic cocktail continues it seems, and the negroni makes no </span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">exception. Mired in various stories and accounts of its invention.</span></span></div> <p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>The most common, and what is now considered to the most likely account, states it was created in Florence in 1919 at Caffe Casoni which is now known as Caffe Cavalli. It began life as an <span style="font-size: 100%; ">Americano the favoured drink of Count Camillo Negroni.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GrMQVzqQvsNkh7SrGVgWWr1RgnPJh7RnPLKoTqGj7hHTHiEdDDIAAFhjHv3Aitbtd68pT6M1H5IGjBzcSZrB4SOm21eZbMxmX2UQ1tgsGJZwK2rmvDiYGlAJQXvwVZMFxKh53Qcf6Ba-/s1600/ws59.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GrMQVzqQvsNkh7SrGVgWWr1RgnPJh7RnPLKoTqGj7hHTHiEdDDIAAFhjHv3Aitbtd68pT6M1H5IGjBzcSZrB4SOm21eZbMxmX2UQ1tgsGJZwK2rmvDiYGlAJQXvwVZMFxKh53Qcf6Ba-/s320/ws59.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727856123497127042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></p><div><span><span style="font-size: 100%; ">The Americano had recently undergone a transformation of it's own. Previously it had been called a "Milano-Torino". A name which stemmed from its ingredients coming from both Milan (Campari) and Turin/Torino (Cinzano). The drink can be dated back to the 1860's however in the early 1900's, during prohibition, more and more Americans were enjoying the drink, which led to it being renamed as an Americano. </span><span style="font-size: 100%; "> </span></span></div> <p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>The Count asked the bartender to strengthen the drink. The bartender added gin instead of the soda. A slice of orange was also added to differentiate the drink from it's predecessor which would normally be garnished with a lemon. </span></p> <p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pDsLZYgfhB9xb0ylV6AXAXZ7g7NQvmVDYmAHAhtUtxec5-WOmydzudQGuJuODskv82Yg2AR36u03cr3z0m9-_rOUhMXMaBGXQTWKg1R2BB5FcXVHZSHMJCrwczpZqdhJQZY2mfUlnrV7/s1600/Sulle+traccie+del+conte.jpg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2pDsLZYgfhB9xb0ylV6AXAXZ7g7NQvmVDYmAHAhtUtxec5-WOmydzudQGuJuODskv82Yg2AR36u03cr3z0m9-_rOUhMXMaBGXQTWKg1R2BB5FcXVHZSHMJCrwczpZqdhJQZY2mfUlnrV7/s320/Sulle+traccie+del+conte.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727856118763554754" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>This account gained further repute when Luca Picchi published a book called "Sulle Tracce Del Conte" about the life of Cammillo Negroni, someone many had argued may never have existed. The story goes the Count left Italy after fathering an illegitimate child so decided it was time to open a cattle ranch in the US. </span></p> <p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C0gTBpLhl7gUomvjApo3fjGoJmbYzOAUCzyOSxd8urXPw7TIuADsKXIpsIgoydyniq1rUD4dlL0DDvESpQ0lFTJEgluPd7GQP9r-Txa3XHTGAp60Bapy1OUbwCl8YUtUHSIgDum9I63B/s1600/amaro-campari-aperitif-liquer-poster-9943304.jpg" style="font-size: medium; "><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9C0gTBpLhl7gUomvjApo3fjGoJmbYzOAUCzyOSxd8urXPw7TIuADsKXIpsIgoydyniq1rUD4dlL0DDvESpQ0lFTJEgluPd7GQP9r-Txa3XHTGAp60Bapy1OUbwCl8YUtUHSIgDum9I63B/s320/amaro-campari-aperitif-liquer-poster-9943304.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727867672848265794" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></p><div><span style="font-size: 100%; "><span>The drink gained some notable success which led the Negroni family to set up the Negroni Distillerie in Treviso, Italy where they produced a ready made version of the drink.</span></span></div> <p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span>As with some of the most famous classic cocktails, one of the earliest references comes from Orson Welles, who was working in Rome in 1947. He described the drink by saying "The bitters are excellent for your liver, the gin is bad for you. They balance each other" a true philosophy to <span style="font-size: 100%; ">live by.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCkPOToULSynWl9ARkhG7fldI7xnwqKGT64W0Nf4YHNZDMDu6JQzdzumyaSs33WMH4Bbd9YQ_duy03JJ-HPtOIrmwMD7lbN8Wiv8z236ORQSrFlKZIN3ngp4p5YdcTy_4RWKudjTgtGsoO/s1600/americano-bianco-carton-blog1.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; "><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCkPOToULSynWl9ARkhG7fldI7xnwqKGT64W0Nf4YHNZDMDu6JQzdzumyaSs33WMH4Bbd9YQ_duy03JJ-HPtOIrmwMD7lbN8Wiv8z236ORQSrFlKZIN3ngp4p5YdcTy_4RWKudjTgtGsoO/s320/americano-bianco-carton-blog1.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727866112561617266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 320px; " /></span></a></p><div><span>Bond may be leaving the classic cocktails behind in his new film however both the Americano and Negroni were enjoyed in previous stories. The Negroni is mentioned in an obscure short story <i>Risicio, </i>which includes Bonds standard Gordon's gin. Contrary to popular knowledge the Americano is actually the first drink ordered in <i>Casino Royale</i>, then has subsequent appearances in <i>From Russia With Love </i>and then finally whilst at a cafe in <i>From A View To A Kill. </i>It is in the last film that we find out Bonds real attitudes towards the drink. He says "it is not a solid drink" and specifies Perrier instead of soda because "the cheapest way to improve a poor drink is with expensive soda water"</span></div><p class="p1"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKzFsgcel1mzR5zt6zJVWJv9MsmgQVL1FVf-rvjgZChH0r5MEs8amyodph8Yu668895KfoCyFh1o-idp_jRD4eAf0O_0y-4qiXPruOS0XOsobLjFTiEsxZJriPJmN7gjfbl7SkXbBG-L9/s1600/picture.jpeg"><span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzKzFsgcel1mzR5zt6zJVWJv9MsmgQVL1FVf-rvjgZChH0r5MEs8amyodph8Yu668895KfoCyFh1o-idp_jRD4eAf0O_0y-4qiXPruOS0XOsobLjFTiEsxZJriPJmN7gjfbl7SkXbBG-L9/s320/picture.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727864030223289090" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 300px; " /></span></a></p><div><span>The drink also famously appeared in Tennessee Williams's novella, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone released in 1950 and then later expanded on in the film, released in 1961. Both feature a scene where character Warren Beaty is sipping on a Negroni, leading many to dub the drink a "playboys choice".</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GrMQVzqQvsNkh7SrGVgWWr1RgnPJh7RnPLKoTqGj7hHTHiEdDDIAAFhjHv3Aitbtd68pT6M1H5IGjBzcSZrB4SOm21eZbMxmX2UQ1tgsGJZwK2rmvDiYGlAJQXvwVZMFxKh53Qcf6Ba-/s1600/ws59.jpg" style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></a></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbg7BZ0cUE9q1WEAYAh4fJmw7kRbwcOtfR84dtCp2QIgO6t26Fv061_fzJIwo-6NqIB3_6OA1imWhpEREtBC5P61EZbkyI9xdfnVzKoOL0seo7p2xa8k6MdxEcHYiBCMdmjJ1EsYECZhsv/s1600/H-325.jpg" style="text-align: left; font-size: medium; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbg7BZ0cUE9q1WEAYAh4fJmw7kRbwcOtfR84dtCp2QIgO6t26Fv061_fzJIwo-6NqIB3_6OA1imWhpEREtBC5P61EZbkyI9xdfnVzKoOL0seo7p2xa8k6MdxEcHYiBCMdmjJ1EsYECZhsv/s320/H-325.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727864037940862658" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-35229946737102769252012-04-05T10:30:00.000+01:002012-04-05T12:46:57.968+01:00The Film Noir Leading Man Look<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sUhYrY2nw3lcvKLb8Y4frUv7wCVWK4PTjxTf_yiphUl0fTS1F7LxeQAUWxiYoPCDp6ILkmSrDs_4P9Xq4GoJnAJOXuJEI2khGRy-0Bitq5YTVO2FfzE86aHWQK63DL1OmWLmVi7_niUJ/s1600/Humphrey-Bogart-2.jpg" style="text-align: left; font-size: 100%; font-family: Georgia, serif; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3sUhYrY2nw3lcvKLb8Y4frUv7wCVWK4PTjxTf_yiphUl0fTS1F7LxeQAUWxiYoPCDp6ILkmSrDs_4P9Xq4GoJnAJOXuJEI2khGRy-0Bitq5YTVO2FfzE86aHWQK63DL1OmWLmVi7_niUJ/s320/Humphrey-Bogart-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727878524631862162" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVl8FV0veAyl1U7bxHzvWo3SW7N4_rGL5ktzsBYT72MyZotFfkX06ucfWeAp6eUkNyXEyWmBRDQ0lvR5-KujblyOo5fBHMj4dRFvs3vzv1nEaMDKx8deRr8sy9RHLKCucVk2dp491xAzr/s1600/tumblr_lbe5ny4p4T1qcs4zto1_500.jpg" style="text-align: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVl8FV0veAyl1U7bxHzvWo3SW7N4_rGL5ktzsBYT72MyZotFfkX06ucfWeAp6eUkNyXEyWmBRDQ0lvR5-KujblyOo5fBHMj4dRFvs3vzv1nEaMDKx8deRr8sy9RHLKCucVk2dp491xAzr/s320/tumblr_lbe5ny4p4T1qcs4zto1_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727877360077051410" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center; "><br /></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 100%; ">Effortlessly classy and well dressed men who were often portrayed as hardy, drinking womanizers, with a quick wit and undeniable cool factor, embodied the Film Noir leading man's role.</span><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><span><br /></span><div><span><span>Essential pieces of clothing....</span><br /></span><div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><ul><li><span>The Three Piece Suit</span></li><li><span>The Fedora </span></li><li><span>Trench Coat</span></li><li><span>A Cigarette</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><div style="text-align: left;"><div></div></div><div><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNpfeKP2S9-tqfDb7tPyre2xDlbGqPChWlpwB9lC7ndswneXW398h55rayUjxt5dSqzcHr0opiNIkElzTSZIeeRf9g7pDtNoYAaWMcfbJtpzYrFKaY1NMM6et4hLa_c6_64-MuKfMvsLB/s1600/Double-Indemnity.jpg"></a></span></div></div><span><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; 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margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 197px; " /></a></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div>DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-83762247897565197902012-03-29T12:58:00.007+01:002012-03-29T13:48:51.283+01:00Tales of the Cocktail and New Orleans<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QZo7LBfiJij7Ez4whIwJdsr5NdNCQ0-IUgS5RZLZhrE4aBKGftECKoi9LX4fnDMuFVsnI_Tmy0VzBYV5KWrxgU7tPZwtZmuUo8oRDns6gpLU-2-FQiJjoGSOvfS0j2dF3vcy5cB0YVZH/s1600/Screen+Shot+2012-03-29+at+13.07.13.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QZo7LBfiJij7Ez4whIwJdsr5NdNCQ0-IUgS5RZLZhrE4aBKGftECKoi9LX4fnDMuFVsnI_Tmy0VzBYV5KWrxgU7tPZwtZmuUo8oRDns6gpLU-2-FQiJjoGSOvfS0j2dF3vcy5cB0YVZH/s320/Screen+Shot+2012-03-29+at+13.07.13.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725289683154918674" border="0" /></a><br />Tales Spirited Nominations are drawing to a close to be sure to get your nominations in quickly! Currently the form linked below is to nominate only, NOT to vote for a winner of any category. As always Tony Conigliaro, Drink Factory and 69 Colebrooke Row would be immensely grateful for your nomination and then (hopefully) subsequent votes!<br /><br />You can nominate your favourites <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.talesofthecocktail.com/2012-spirited-awards-nominations/">HERE</a></span><br /><br />This years categories are:<br /><br />World’s Best Cocktail Bar <br />World’s Best Cocktail Menu<br /> World’s Best Drinks Selection<br />World’s Best Hotel Bar<br />World’s Best New Cocktail Bar<br />Best Cocktail Writing <br />Best Bar Mentor <br />International Bartender of the Year <br /><br />"La Nouvelle Orleans" is rivaled by very few in the sheer wealth of music, food, and cocktail culture.<br /><br />Often referred to as the birthplace of jazz and then it's subsequent morphing into RnB and Rock n' Roll, many put this down to the sheer diversity in the cultures living within New Orleans. It was a melange of traditions that melded and morphed around the city creating styles that were widely popular but distinctly New Orleans.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbrotwCvaZoL97XYZBXsZZiMDh0tBTyY2lwggvbN4R_2Ni5On-yvFwR5eKQlN5OP1ztwVx_qIZo8IYC9pxlSDmKQ7GBNbxtTOyBYqzsb74Mdr2XzsNMVn6rWPHvoLLVqflTmGB2vjts-h/s1600/neworleansrhythmkings.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbrotwCvaZoL97XYZBXsZZiMDh0tBTyY2lwggvbN4R_2Ni5On-yvFwR5eKQlN5OP1ztwVx_qIZo8IYC9pxlSDmKQ7GBNbxtTOyBYqzsb74Mdr2XzsNMVn6rWPHvoLLVqflTmGB2vjts-h/s320/neworleansrhythmkings.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725289690518676226" border="0" /></a><br />As well known as it is for it's music, many would argue it's history of creating classic and legendary cocktails is just as well important. Now home to the Museum of the American Cocktail and Tales of the Cocktail, the area is assured to retain it's place as a cocktail haven. In 2008 the Sazerac was named the Official Cocktail of New Orleans after being created by Amedee Peychaud in the early 1800,s. The drink was originally mixed with cognac however over time Thomas Handy stepped in and changed the spirit to rye whiskey sometime during the 1870's and the recipe has remained un-touched to this day.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yXYhStXZ6JI-AFD1n_hZEE-qkJ0rOEK9-PY9yMIFZBDox4q-Vq5JZ1hXPZIriXrwM5FY463DMVOw-CXivuzLZIupomMSOaBXkm1qpFiCxQwZt5WXOAojE2K5k3RYh6zKfMHsEpjPN2dY/s1600/medium-sazeracladiesbartenderjpg-4326329cd672af2d_large.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_yXYhStXZ6JI-AFD1n_hZEE-qkJ0rOEK9-PY9yMIFZBDox4q-Vq5JZ1hXPZIriXrwM5FY463DMVOw-CXivuzLZIupomMSOaBXkm1qpFiCxQwZt5WXOAojE2K5k3RYh6zKfMHsEpjPN2dY/s320/medium-sazeracladiesbartenderjpg-4326329cd672af2d_large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725295387498206322" border="0" /></a><br />A drink which is perhaps slightly less well known to some contemporary bars, but has an equally important place in the history books is the Ramos Fizz. In it's initial guise it would be shaken by 12 different people for one minute each. Created by Henry C Ramos at Meyers Restaurant, it has since been adapted into a slightly more practical drink but still has puts many bartenders arms to the test of shaking it properly.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OkdjSGbz3nZQTnz2FsT6zfFA8fNIMzJgeBTbyi3XTvh89QmXWdlR-brpF7i6KFrDL3mIVJGTNd6IKQCrRANInltRwtACouZ5LZDah-tz-M5mmWWDHSu01LGAsIW3fGfXpifjdvysC8v5/s1600/1881.Ramos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OkdjSGbz3nZQTnz2FsT6zfFA8fNIMzJgeBTbyi3XTvh89QmXWdlR-brpF7i6KFrDL3mIVJGTNd6IKQCrRANInltRwtACouZ5LZDah-tz-M5mmWWDHSu01LGAsIW3fGfXpifjdvysC8v5/s320/1881.Ramos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725294939924967154" border="0" /></a>Though it would be very easy to spend a very very long time talking about New Orleans cocktail history, it's present day choice of restaurants surely deserves equal attention.<br /><br />Arnauds - Housed in the french quarter, Arnauds features award-winning Creole cuisine, friendly, charming service and an ambiance you will only find in the French Quarter.<br /><br />Brennan's - A highly renowned legend in New Orleans, with good reason. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can find the restaurant in the French Quarter and sample some of the worlds most imaginative dishes.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0FRIpLup-Hz-vUZb3hQMxHktBnSGKGIPb8Qm89pdGDg5YiFaRgK3x5MF1gwN-nRl4sV5CPaxhbg-3R3kij6sHpQlWr039Nz9Yq_MWP2Yr0ZHlOUhop6n0aBFWzGG6FyKsDZ9q-8vTTbGh/s1600/386dac2dd9e8ce2edffe852bcfc295e4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0FRIpLup-Hz-vUZb3hQMxHktBnSGKGIPb8Qm89pdGDg5YiFaRgK3x5MF1gwN-nRl4sV5CPaxhbg-3R3kij6sHpQlWr039Nz9Yq_MWP2Yr0ZHlOUhop6n0aBFWzGG6FyKsDZ9q-8vTTbGh/s320/386dac2dd9e8ce2edffe852bcfc295e4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725299900256141714" border="0" /></a><br />What is New Orleans if not laid back and that is reflected in some of it's more relaxed eateries and cafes. Huck Finns Cafe, for instance, is famed for serving authentic New Orleans dishes, whose recipes have been passed down through generations. Or Mulate's Cajun Restaurant. which many consider to be the place that made Cajun culture famous.<br /><br />We hope to see you there!DFacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504888024241515296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188292925712365239.post-9407818911827241412012-03-29T11:05:00.009+01:002012-03-29T11:56:03.258+01:00Duke Ellington - "I don't need time, I need a deadline"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsdz-yDw21DmuLt4kloe8sLrhCnGTPFgU_5Zskdj3IDo5sY0pypgYPeGcAsPwd5gwWJvi1t8_1M4gymtHDK7qcZle4waTgNr3eXUGgmHnob8MdNSv7_IIugL8X6ph2k2AGUq_q_vMCf0h/s1600/A1pH42DIxGL._SL600_.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZsdz-yDw21DmuLt4kloe8sLrhCnGTPFgU_5Zskdj3IDo5sY0pypgYPeGcAsPwd5gwWJvi1t8_1M4gymtHDK7qcZle4waTgNr3eXUGgmHnob8MdNSv7_IIugL8X6ph2k2AGUq_q_vMCf0h/s320/A1pH42DIxGL._SL600_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725266901603666466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and liked to describe those who impressed him as "beyond category. He remains one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music and is widely considered as one of the twentieth century's best known African American personalities. </span><br style="font-family:arial;"><br style="font-family:arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1VieUN8REvmHV5QJ2oQWz-QMPE7Gc7s2Z_Vh0VZb6QycExUh8jwOS4l0W7eTz5g9uiv3X65dMptljnXXL9blunCuMw9s7PVMbEG5kkrKCZ1K2x-5iXKejclUKKwyUTN_2219UWlnfJ4S/s1600/df75022095f39962a54c73d1fd62f.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1VieUN8REvmHV5QJ2oQWz-QMPE7Gc7s2Z_Vh0VZb6QycExUh8jwOS4l0W7eTz5g9uiv3X65dMptljnXXL9blunCuMw9s7PVMbEG5kkrKCZ1K2x-5iXKejclUKKwyUTN_2219UWlnfJ4S/s320/df75022095f39962a54c73d1fd62f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725266919396237874" border="0" /></a><br style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home. He gave American music its own sound for the first time. In his fifty year career, he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as Asia.</span><br style="font-family:arial;"><br style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington is best remembered for the over 3000 songs that he composed during his lifetime. His best known titles include; "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Mood Indigo", “Solitude", "In a Mellotone", and "Satin Doll".</span><br style="font-family:arial;"><br face="arial"><object style="font-family: arial;" height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H2JGKW4lSz4?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H2JGKW4lSz4?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="420"></embed></object><br face="arial"><br face="arial"><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington's popular compositions set the bar for generations of brilliant jazz, pop, theater and soundtrack composers to come. While these compositions guarantee his greatness, what makes Duke an iconoclastic genius are his extended suites.</span><br face="arial"><br face="arial"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFD__ceUVZGN-3yqjJxMQwrQVbrhLCUKwRFUPB2TiePzIp9wv3-fqq4aENHKXM8V7GPFWnq1r-V0t2kVElhOIiFxrsgeGn9Wc2OMwi8_cVSwPdmb_VLSSUc0Ym0WKVxe-AjdpIg7GwJgb5/s1600/duke+ellington+13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFD__ceUVZGN-3yqjJxMQwrQVbrhLCUKwRFUPB2TiePzIp9wv3-fqq4aENHKXM8V7GPFWnq1r-V0t2kVElhOIiFxrsgeGn9Wc2OMwi8_cVSwPdmb_VLSSUc0Ym0WKVxe-AjdpIg7GwJgb5/s320/duke+ellington+13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725266895675126546" border="0" /></a><br face="arial"><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington was partial to giving brief verbal accounts of the moods his songs captured. Reading those accounts is like looking deep into the background of an old photo of New York and noticing the lost and almost unaccountable details that gave the city its character during Ellington's heyday, which began in 1927 when his band made the Cotton Club its home.</span><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><object style="font-family: arial;" height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/brqxEdwsTQs?version=3&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/brqxEdwsTQs?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="420"></embed></object><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TNQDi96YGOlOM94s36ilsFrkWdK9Cejv4ReYd9a_-OahuJCLHswPvmhnCtq1ux3kBbjmHVRT5AlBcPJ7mzdcXPJLryPdwZYXVPsYveNlyeQm3coTXn0qLOM76edsAejKRSDl7rXj_Gqn/s1600/duke-ellington.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9TNQDi96YGOlOM94s36ilsFrkWdK9Cejv4ReYd9a_-OahuJCLHswPvmhnCtq1ux3kBbjmHVRT5AlBcPJ7mzdcXPJLryPdwZYXVPsYveNlyeQm3coTXn0qLOM76edsAejKRSDl7rXj_Gqn/s320/duke-ellington.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725268123697685682" border="0" /></a><br style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">''The memory of things gone,''Ellington once said, ''is important to a jazz musician,'' and the stories he sometimes told about his songs are the record of those things gone.</span><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0w6VrWyrOrHPXkPjFKsljIhA7J1RNcgGIHNeOkRy0Gx6rRT-WAjSv_A6-uxVC0ZnaQk6IF2G6NEyOgC85Srs04k7iyk2m5PWx_sl8AdcTDg8S8w2afOLb0hC_P9I1c1wbelwwIIeD6v2/s1600/89e2e0c4e878af767169b14697077.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0w6VrWyrOrHPXkPjFKsljIhA7J1RNcgGIHNeOkRy0Gx6rRT-WAjSv_A6-uxVC0ZnaQk6IF2G6NEyOgC85Srs04k7iyk2m5PWx_sl8AdcTDg8S8w2afOLb0hC_P9I1c1wbelwwIIeD6v2/s320/89e2e0c4e878af767169b14697077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725266908124840114" border="0" /></a><br style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Duke Ellington was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He was later awarded several other prizes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and the Legion of Honor by France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country. He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974. At his funeral attended by over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion, "It's a very sad day...A genius has passed."</span><br style="font-family: arial;"><br style="font-family: arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6M4ZdJW9yXoWsE1jLbHpEe4BQzMFTbfwvrwEZYq1uN0_7Hc3bKdqnZnalSXkjOqmhTLyZJIHfiWxstOQY3QLB4tG2h7AhgSdCKaXFNRTEx9C3NyCpdQCZPdGrMaikBvMTM83N_4oLK3bM/s1600/duke-ellington.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6M4ZdJW9yXoWsE1jLbHpEe4BQzMFTbfwvrwEZYq1uN0_7Hc3bKdqnZnalSXkjOqmhTLyZJIHfiWxstOQY3QLB4tG2h7AhgSdCKaXFNRTEx9C3NyCpdQCZPdGrMaikBvMTM83N_4oLK3bM/s320/duke-ellington.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725268349562769698" border="0" /></a><br style="font-family: arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNXiPjb29Yqz9AwcTgQquItd_a5vlw12D7lm-TkoCL5kBf3Kuua-zREjoJbQeoIUQ17H6YyY1-hL52fCjVdcbCfZ9QeMBIDnjGR-HtUHbs56a528AgTFa4Zv5t_Gp3ddaSKZ94QwOozIJ/s1600/cd-cover.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfnif3LSAVCLUUUP2iE3vgGnatKlaln2gryHfmMcDu8zzWtSkr6rXv4tfBYQ6q5j_84K20139ye-iGr2MOkwawtlSNCIWDx9ZsWbbGuaSWkR5dSRvyFoY6imvgNjTv2Bi9KIvgsEohZrD/s320/the_lab.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725274227410996082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Why not get your “N'awlin’s” swing on and head to 69 Colebrooke Row on Saturday 2nd June (2-4pm) for a special Bourbon Cocktails Masterclass…</span><br style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Price - £40 per head<br />Early booking recommended - book your place/s - maria@69colebrookerow.com</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br style="font-family:arial;"><br style="font-family:arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJQhWBw-GlXUI5dbQ2GZ90E_LUeRP-IlP03TUJyNO66uoEwctObRSsYxkg8EAvNOdmisrwxAIWlk8niLMoJFxsZO4z44K1f5Zzzkdp3VBCV4rRg8N5DTZHS-ctVBxdPic8bqthCGrxJXT/s1600/new-orleans-bourbon-funeral.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOJQhWBw-GlXUI5dbQ2GZ90E_LUeRP-IlP03TUJyNO66uoEwctObRSsYxkg8EAvNOdmisrwxAIWlk8niLMoJFxsZO4z44K1f5Zzzkdp3VBCV4rRg8N5DTZHS-ctVBxdPic8bqthCGrxJXT/s320/new-orleans-bourbon-funeral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725274216469109266" border="0" /></a><br style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">On Saturday 23rd June, 2012 between 2-4pm, join us for our first</span><span style="font-family:arial;">Tequila & Mezcal Cocktails Masterclass.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Experience the distinct flavours from south of the border in the inimitable bar with no name fashion.<br face="arial"></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Price - £40 per head</span><br face="arial"><span style="font-family:arial;">Early booking highly recommended - maria@69colebrookerow</span><br style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Adios!</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXOoZcqwZmNJYAMyLFKrgV09ZIkjDZuJvFVvB7L9U1q2exPLjAdm0a4VaZboWf1SxjMkxsc8GKJma5L19AgmL_Nel3u9eqU2VJd80KZzGDiRT4_oqjenB7B6wnaUQD_ajRtnUZg1xnENPP/s1600/tequila-mc.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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