Over the years I’ve come across various attempts at premixed cocktails. The sticking point is usually that some ingredients like lemon ...

Given my enthusiasm for Roku gin , you won’t be surprised to hear that when I saw this in the supermarket I was keen to give it a try. Lik...

A Pineapple Mule, made using the items in my mystery package (plus mint from the garden) It seems this is the third time I’ve said “I ...

For some reason I always associate The Last Word cocktail with The Great Gatsby . In fact it doesn’t appear in the novel, though the cha...

I generally don’t have much time for LinkedIn. I tend to say yes to any request to connect but I’ve only been approached twice about potenti...

We were on holiday in Athens, prompted by the chance to visit a friend in the last weeks of his tenure as British ambassador to Greece (w...

One hundred years ago today Prohibition passed into US Federal law, when the 18th Amendment was ratified by the 36th state.* It was in...