other drinks

tequila Meyer lemonade

July 30, 2010

We’ve a lot of Meyer lemons right now after a visit to our friend, Kristen’s home in the East Bay to celebrate the Kev-star’s birthday last week. She has two dwarf trees in her backyard that are full of these delightful fruit. Meyer lemons have terrific flavor. Milder than regular lemons; the acidity level is [...]

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true blood: freshly squeezed blood and Texas orange juice

March 29, 2010

I never really liked canned or bottled juices. They always seem to taste a bit too sweet for me. Orange juice is especially tricky: often it comes with additional, unwanted pith and peel flavors, which makes it bitter; and it either tastes like plastic or metal from the container. Not good. So over the weekends [...]

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cachaça

February 18, 2010

Cachaça is best known in the U.S. as the fairly obscure Brazilian liquor that is mixed into caipirinhas, a cocktail that enjoyed a lot of success in New York about ten years ago (it came into fashion after the mojito). In Brazil, it´s quite another story. Cachaça is the second most popular alcoholic beverage there [...]

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suco de abacate AKA avocado milkshake

February 16, 2010

We´d been traveling in Brazil for a week or so when I was confronted with one of the food-related things about the country that most alarms me: sweet avocado juice. I´m not completely naive and do realize that this is not that uncommon, at least in other places far from where I live. In fact, [...]

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Brazilian beer

February 10, 2010

Brazilians like beer. It´s the most popular alcoholic drink in that country and it may even be the most popular drink, period. Who knows? Unfortuantely, I don´t like beer all that much. It´s a character flaw, I realize, but what can I do? We all have our opinions about things. Actually, Hegui´s sister, Tinha, agrees [...]

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suco de carambola AKA starfruit juice

February 8, 2010

While visiting Vitória north of Rio de Janeiro, the thing that I look forward to the most (after the company, of course) is suco de carambola or starfruit juice. Starfruit were simply not that common during my childhood in Northern Virginia. Sure they were around occasionally, but were really expensive, often a few dollars each. [...]

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Oktoberfest at Nature Friends Tourist Club

September 28, 2009

I’m not much of a beer drinker, but who can pass on the opportunity of going on a hike in the Mt. Tamalpais region overlooking the splendid Muir Woods followed by an Oktoberfest celebration with a bunch of twenty-and-thirty-somethings dressed like traditional German villagers in lederhosen? Well, I couldn’t miss that, even if I’d rather [...]

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groovy mango nectar

July 29, 2009

Mangoes look especially good this time of year. I bought several of them the other day because they were on sale at a Mexican market I shop at in the Mission. The whole week I was craving the fresh juice; the type of juice I grew up drinking in beautiful Brazil. Most cities in Brazil [...]

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Spritx cocktail

July 17, 2009

We tried this glamorous cocktail recipe using prosecco, Campari and a bit of sparkling water and lime. Spritx is something that Hegui had been hearing about lately though we’re assured that the drink has been popular for some time and has become a national “phenomenon.” It’s easy to make. The drink has a pleasing summertime [...]

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Kennedy’s Irish Pub and India Curry House Restaurant

June 16, 2009

India Curry House is a restaurant inside of an Irish pub called Kennedy’s, over on 1040 Columbus Street between Francisco and Bay Streets, right across from Bimbo’s nightclub in North Beach. I have wanted to eat there and try a pint for about ten years now. My chance finally came last week. Since the eatery’s [...]

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