A rye whiskey you can find at the corner store.

Flaming tails can be done really right or really wrong.

A friend told me that she visited such a bar a couple of years ago. Does anyone know if this place still exists? If not, any other place in the Bay area doing extra-large ice cubes for tails (besides the Slanted Door)? Thanks.

Hi there, CHOW editor, Lessley, here. I edit Jordan Mackay's column, The Juice, and it’s still going. He writes about wine as well as spirits and beer. Yes, Tasting Notes is gone. Thanks for noticing, Lessley

. Jordan

The Jordan Mackay story on Cointreau and Triple Sec http://www.chow.com/stories/10932 got me thinking about Sidecars—specifically, that although I am old enough to have lived under in ten different US Presidents and I am...

#2232804 Edited to add: Wanted to add that bringing Jordan Mackay into CHOW has encouraged me to click on a wine story from time to time. As you can see from my earlier rant, I had little respect for the early wine writers and...

://www.thujone.info/testing.html Haven’t had time to read the whole thing yet. And, here’s Jordan Mackay on St. George’s Absinthe and others - http://www.chow.com/stories/10871

The article on reds from the Priorat region of Spain by Jordan Mackay http://www.chow.com/stories/10431 read like a very tasty dream, but sent me spinning off into my own. I started spieling in a comment after the article, but...

again for all the responses. Jordan

well past well done and the entire dish lacked a signature flavor. tails were very good, even my son’s virgin mojito. we also tried MacKay's across the street (sort of) and found it to be solidly mediocre. the kid’s...