Last year, I had the pleasure of attending a bourbon tasting with Maker’s Mark’s Bill Samuels Jr. At the end of the evening, he shared the recipe for his take on the Manhattan, and now I’m sharing it with you: The Bill Samuels Manhattan 4…
Gill Holland, co-owner of The Green Building at 732 E. Market St. in Louisville’s NuLu District, wants to establish Louisville as the “Gateway to Bourbon Country.” And now a new bike rack sculpture in front of the building is pointing the…
David Chang, owner and chef of Momofuku restaurants (the name means “Lucky Peach”), recently gave a slightly inebriated bourbon tutorial on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” He noted that bourbon production is governed by several rules and regulations. “It has to be in new…
A record number of people visited all six distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 2011, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association reported this week. The total of 11,757 visitors, representing all 50 states and 16 countries, was well above the previous record of 9,402, set…
Here in Louisville, Ky., we don’t just have access to fine bourbon. We have some of the best independent restaurants around – Jack Fry’s, Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, Limestone, 610 Magnolia (whose chef, Edward Lee, is currently a contestant on “Top…
The 3rd Annual Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience concluded in, where else, Manhattan this week with Joann Spiegel, a bartender from – hey – Manhattan crowned the winner. Here is her recipe: 2 oz Woodford Reserve 1/2 oz vermouth 1/4 oz…
After a few recent excursions to places where bourbon was sort of an afterthought, this past weekend I targeted two destinations where I knew it would be respected. I was not disappointed. At Against the Grain, the brewery and smokehouse that opened about three months…
Let me say up front that I love Louisville’s L & N Wine Bar and Bistro, and that probably when you visit an establishment with “wine” right in the name of it, that is what you should drink there – and usually that…
Caught “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” (that’s a lot of punctuation for one title, eh?) over the holiday break and was gratified by the exchange between Paula Patton’s Agent Carter and Anil Kapoor’s Brij Nath at Nath’s opulent Mumbai digs….
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