Pink Lady

Your holiday dance card is surely full of fetes, parties and soirees.  Chances are that for at least one such occasion, you’re tasked with bringing something delicious.  Why not come armed with punch?  We LUPEC ladies are fond of following very traditional recipes for our punches.  Why not?  If a... Read More

Could there be a more wholesome fall activity here in New England than apple-picking (full flask notwithstanding)?  It’s as American as apple brandy – or applejack, the American version. Applejack is America’s oldest distilled spirit, an apple brandy that first became popular during Colonial times.  Laird’s & Company were the... Read More

We’d like to raise a glass today to one of our favorite bourbon drinks, the Bourbon Belle.  A modern classic created in the mid-2OOOs by LUPEC Boston founding member Joy Richard, this is hardly an extinct cocktail.  But we feel the drink deserves a little celebratory pomp for its clever... Read More

Who doesn’t love a whimsically named Tiki drink served from a skull or ceramic highball resembling a totem pole?  Invented in the ’7Os somewhere in the West Indies, a tiny bar accessible only by boat was mixing up a cocktail with a high-test brand of Navy rum called Pusser’s that... Read More

As anyone who has spent much time in Europe can attest, drinking on the Continent just isn’t the same as cocktailing in the US.  In Italy, for example, if you order a “dry martini” at the bar, you’ll wind up with a glass of dry Martini & Rossi vermouth.  Sure,... Read More

Since the late ’9Os “martinis” have been all the rage.  Dirty Martini, Apple-tini, Choco-tini, Pomegranate-tini – this trend of mixing up a beverage and slapping “tini” on its suffix is the reason a proper martini is one of the most endangered cocktails of all.  For the uninitiated, the earliest recipes... Read More

RED WINE + COKE.  YES, WE’RE SERIOUS. Having logged many hours behind the stick at Boston’s popular Spanish tapas joint Toro, I can tell you from experience: Americans love to drink sangria while they sample small plates.  And as anyone who knows anything about Spain will tell you, that’s not... Read More

What’s the best way to make something you like even better?  Amp it up – make it bigger, faster, stronger, etc.  As red-blooded Americans, these attitudes about consumption are pretty much woven into our DNA, even when it comes to liquor. If a Sazerac tastes delicious to you, what’s an... Read More

“I drink champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad.Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory.I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty.” -Lily Bollinger She’s a... Read More

The Sidecar was a gateway cocktail for many of us LUPEC Boston gals, a drink not unlike the Manhattan that is curiously still kicking in modern bars, despite its vintage roots. Many will claim the Sidecar was invented in France in the 192Os at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris. ... Read More