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A Very Figgy & Very Adult Milkshake.
I’ve known Simon Lange, chef at Apartment 138 (138 Smith Street in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn), since he played high school soccer with my kid brother in Key West. When I first was getting interested in...
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Apples, Figs, Sandy Denny & Late November.
Woke up early Sunday morning, opened the New York Times Magazine and read Rosie Schaap’s marvelously evocative essay on cool fall nights and how they make her crave apple cider drinks, a great piece...
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Black Mission Fig Bitters & Where To Find Them.
Our Black Mission Fig Bitters have had a big month or so, getting mentioned in the New York Times (a coup), and by the lovely ladies of Gastronomista, and by the fit lads of Men’s Health, and in one...
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New BHB Press from The Empire State to The Golden Gate.
Why the Jessica Lange Bruce Weber photo? That’s pretty much how we felt when we got a couple great mentions this week, in both The SF Bay Guardian & The NYT Magazine. (The Times Magazine had...
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Black Mission Fig Sour or: Martha, Martha, Martha!
Back in October I was involved in rounding up bartenders for Martha Stewart’s “American Made” awards event that was held in a made-over Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station. Still not quite sure...
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New Shops around the US of A carrying BHB
We’ve working with a couple sweet new retailers around the country–in the case of Hey Rooster General Store in Nashville, very very new. The artisanal, crafty handmade good store with one of the...
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Extra Fancy Spring Cocktails in the Key of Scotchy Scotch Scotch
Stopped into Extra Fancy in Williamsburg the other night to try some spring scotch cocktails–a capital notion. E.F.’s Monday crewTom “Tojo” Johnson and Eric Job were serving up some frisky numbers...
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Philadelphia Freedom: BHB lands in Philly at Green Aisle Grocery
As we inexorably expand our web of retailers out across the country (and the world) like some kind of bitters Borg, we keep encountering innovative and very personal shops and the cool teams behind...
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Says Zagat: BHB Trendy, Kooky, in NYC
Photo Credit: Zagat, Hernan F. Rodriguez Well, we’re definitely in NYC. Definitely part of a larger bitters trend. Kooky? I wouldn’t have thought so, certainly not as kooky as Bitter Tears’ “Lucille”...
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“The Mad Hatter” toasts Chick Corea at Jazz at Lincoln Center (with Black...
Andrey Kalinksy of Highlands (250 West. 10th St.) created The Mad Hatter for the recent Chick Corea Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center. So dubbed after a 1978 progressive composition and album of the...
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