Month: May 2014
Friday Cocktail
Try a taste of elegance with this Friday’s cocktail, the White Lily. This cocktail is included in the 1964 edition of Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender’s Guide. However, it is of an older vintage than that, appearing in the famed Savoy Cocktail Book originally released in the early 1930s. There is some quibble… Read More ›
Writing Challenge 30
It’s time for this month’s writing challenge. The Poisoned Martini features monthly images to spark your creativity. Such images, because of their visual nature, vividly speak to writers and spark ideas for writing. The idea is to view the image below and to write a scene, a short story, a chapter, a novella, or maybe even… Read More ›
Tequila Mockingbird
Give a literary spin to your favorite cocktails. Author Tim Federle takes his love of cocktails and combines them with a love of literature. What might some of the most famous books inspire? “Pay proper homage to the world’s greatest stories and storytellers” with these inspired cocktails. There’s “drinks for dames”, “gulps for guys”, “bevvies… Read More ›
Black Dog
The title of Stephen Booth’s debut mystery comes from an expression in “some country places” where a person suffering melancholy is described as having “the black dog on his back.” For much of the novel, several characters could be said to have the black dog weighing them down. The story begins ominously. A granddaughter tells… Read More ›
A Cover Revealed
An author dreams of what the cover of their first book would look like. We’ve written the story and sent it out for a hopeful response; all the while, in the back of our minds, envisioning what our cover could look like. Would it be a scene from the story? An abstract collage suggestive of… Read More ›
Friday Cocktail
Continue with The Poisoned Martini’s floral-themed drinks with this Friday cocktail, the Peach Blossom. There are varying recipes with the name Peach Blossom. Some recent recipes opt for orange juice with peach schnapps. Others shake it up with vodka and/or ginger ale. The recipe below dates back as far as the early 1960s and appears… Read More ›
A Tale of Two Covers
Judging a book by its cover is inevitable, n’est pas? We all do it in spite of our best efforts not to. After all, an eye-catching cover will draw our attention to pick up that book from the shelf and read the blurb to find out what it’s about. For an author, that’s half the… Read More ›
Friday Cocktail
In keeping with the theme of May flowers, try an Orange Blossom. This cocktail is similar to a Screwdriver, which is made with vodka and sans sugar. A few recipes I’ve seen replace the gin with vodka, but that would be very wrong. Others add cointreau, but this isn’t really needed. Many modern recipes only… Read More ›
Friday Cocktail
Spring is here, and by now, the famous Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C., have bloomed. So this Friday, try a Cherry Blossom Cocktail! It’s still chilly up here in the Northeast, but the cherry blossoms have come and gone in Washington, D.C. The blooms appear in late March to early April and the coinciding festival… Read More ›
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