Category: Food Writing
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The Art of Shaking
Shaking a drink can be a very nuanced action. In a dive bar, or any high volume bar, you may see that shaking is a quick and brutish motion, serving only as a means to end. At its core, yes, shaking a drink is just a method of preparation. It can be as simple as…
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Death and Cooking
On Monday, March 18, my grandmother passed away at 78 years old. My grandmother, Kaet, was an immigrant from Laos. She immigrated from Laos in 1974, with her four children. She later gave birth to a fifth child in the States. As the Vietnam War was starting to come to a close, my family was…
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The Dance
It’s been about two weeks since I left my job as a craft bartender. Before I started bartending, I was cooking at the same restaurant. I feel lost without the constant threat of going to work at the end of the work, forcing me to get the rest of my work out of the way.…
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Milk Punch
In the world of mixology, there are only so many ways of preparing a drink. At the core, all cocktails involve the mixture of ingredients. Different methods of preparing, like stirring and shaking, change the way a drink can taste, or feel in the mouth. Beyond these two methods exist a handful of other preparation…
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Tiny Lou’s, Big Food
To the uninitiated or the non-native, the Hotel Clermont would be an unassuming building on the historic Ponce de Leon Avenue; a quaint looking, relatively small, old hotel that surely has some history to it. However, to natives of the Poncey-Highlands neighborhood or Atlanta in general, the Hotel Clermont would be known as the home…
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