21
May
Riffle Food
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21
May
19
May
Words to live by. A succinct reminder from Michael Pollan.
16
May
9
May
Eating soup… 1920’s style.
9
May
A screenshot from the original Great Gatsby movie. How many of you are going to see the premiere of the new Great Gatsby movie tonight?
Beautiful! A little more sedate than the Baz Luhrmann movie, I’m guessing.
8
May
At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor.
7
May
Mint Julep from Savory Sweet Life
Ingredients
2 ounces whiskey/bourbon
crushed ice
1 ounce mint infused simple syrup *see below
mint sprig
Directions: In a tall glass add bourbon, crushed ice, mint-infused simple syrup, and more ice if needed. Stir well and garnish with a mint sprig.
Mint-infused simple syrup: Boil 1 cup sugar and 1 cup of water for 1 minutes. Stir until all the sugar has dissolved and the liquid is clear. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 minutes. Turn the heat off and add one bunch of mint sprigs and allow them to steep for 20 minutes. Strain mint leaves and allow the syrup to completely cool before using.
6
May
A glimpse into Gatsby’s earlier, simpler days. Clam-diggers, painstakingly finding the shellfish in shallow water.
“For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed. His brown, hardening body lived naturally through the half-fierce, half-lazy work of the bracing days.” - The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6.
6
May
Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone
6
May
A beautiful 1920’s ad for Coca Cola. During Prohibition, soft drink sales went up, and the industry flourished.
It’s hard to imagine any Gatsby character drinking anything besides gin, champagne or whiskey, though!
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