Even from my miraculous birth, my name has been synonymous with alcohol. I share the same name as a very expensive bottle of wine; my mother used to drink a glass of wine before she nursed me in the evenings to help me fall asleep, and my first official postnatal drink was champagne dipped strawberries with Robert Goulet at the Tampa Yacht Club. By the time I was five, I.. Read More
MOVE OVER CHUNK FILET! there’s a new chicken sandwich in town, and it’s from a wing place. excited? probably not. i mean, who cares, right? just another chicken sandwich. who doesn’t serve chicken sandwiches these days? even arby’s has started doing it. so whatchu got, wingstop? they call them “gliders”. i guess because wingstop tries to relate everything to airplanes or something. i mean, you go inside the place and.. Read More
Vodka & Lemonade | Piña Colada | Strawberry Daiquiri | Mudslide i was recently asked to review the new freeze & shake cocktails, from the makers of smirnoff, captain morgan, baileys, and guinness (just to name a few brands). i will review all of the freeze and shake frozen cocktails over the course of this four part series, and, in doing so, i will get trashed. the third frozen cocktail.. Read More
THE SODAS OF SUBS-N-SUCH cheerwine. has a more glorious drink ever existed? experts say no. will a more glorious drink ever exist? fortune tellers say no. cheerwine has long represented for me something more than just a mere soda… opening a cheerwine usually accompanied liberation from the boundaries of florida on a family trip, entering new, better states, whose gas stations offered new, better sodas. cheerwine is only widely available.. Read More
are you ready for this? i don’t think you’re ready for this. i don’t even know if i was ready for this. but i guess that’s usually the way it goes when it comes to all the important events in life. birth. death. first day of school. first time having sex. this is gonna be like the sex. except that you might not be as excited. you might not want.. Read More