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Dec. 23rd, 2009
A Unique Spirit, and So Is Her Absinthe
By ALICE FEIRING
Published: December 22, 2009
WALTON, N.Y.
AMONG the sleek new group of domestic distillers, Cheryl Lins is an original. Wearing a baseball cap, flannel-lined jeans and wire spectacles, she flits from store to cocktail bar, towing her cardboard box of goods, selling to old customers and looking for new. When making her sales pitch, she sometimes forgets to say that she’s the one who distills it, designs the label, waxes the cork and brings the bottles to market. And by the way: her varieties of absinthe are local. Even More Green Fairy
A la recherche du temps perdu
Dec. 23rd, 2009 07:35 amRaindrops on Roses and Schnitzel and Strudel
By ALEX WITCHEL
Published: December 18, 2009
By ALEX WITCHEL
Published: December 18, 2009
IT’S been a sad year for restaurant lovers in New York. All those birthdays, anniversaries and promotions commemorated at the now-shuttered Chanterelle, Fiamma, Lever House and La Goulue, to name only a few, consigned to bittersweet memory. More
Festivus List from Bill in Portland Main
Dec. 23rd, 2009 08:24 am>> President Obama, for not enacting my agenda fast enough.
>> Olympia Snowe, for hanging up when history called.
>> John McCain and Sarah Palin, for being the whiniest losing presidential ticket ever.
>> The traditional media, for another year of quoting politicians, "experts" and spokespeople without asking the fundamental question: "Are they speaking the truth, or am I being played for a sucker?" Too many times the answer is: Like a Tootsie Pop.
>> Whoever felt it was necessary to take from us this year: Walter Cronkite, Ted Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Bea Arthur, Michael Jackson, Corazon Aquino, Henry Gibson, Mary Travers, Farrah Fawcett, John Hughes, Andrew Wyeth, and our 21 year-old cat.
>> Teabaggers, for achieving with ignorance and venom in the public square what a two-year-old achieves with creamed corn in his diaper.
>> Family values titans Tiger Woods, John Ensign and Mark Sanford, for thinking with the wrong head.
>> Credit card companies that skirt new federal regulations and charge 80 percent interest.
>> Joe Lieberman, walking proof that backstabbers and liars do, indeed, prosper. Remember that, kids!
>> Dick Cheney, for not going fishing more often.
>> Wall Street barons, for returning to their greedy, greedy ways and not even having the decency to pick the confetti out of their hair and the caviar out of their teeth before they tell us how grateful they are to us for bailing them out.
>> Compromises that seem to only extract concessions from the left.
>> The 53 percent of Maine voters who repealed our gay marriage law and proved that we are, in fact, not a "live and let live" state.
>> All the two-faced "concernvative" citizens and pundits who are nitpicking things Obama is doing that Bush also did but they never nitpicked him for those things, did they? Noooooooooo, they most certainly did not.
>> God, for not coming down here and straightening out this mess of a planet. She's dating another universe, isn’t she? Link
