{"id":1170,"date":"2010-01-01T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-12-27T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:50:23","slug":"art-of-the-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/01\/art-of-the-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of the Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>In light of celebrating, I view the perfect cocktail as art, especially one with pure ingredients, made &#8220;from scratch,&#8221; as we&#8217;d say in baking. Not many people, however, go to such extremes to make their own mixers like tonic water, but <a title=\"Building a Better Cocktail by Jason Wilson, WP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/15\/AR2009121501064.html\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Thrasher<\/a> of <a title=\"Restaurant Eve website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restauranteve.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant Eve<\/a> and <a title=\"PX Lounge website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restauranteve.com\/eamonns\/PX\/px_home.html\" target=\"_blank\">PX<\/a> speakeasy (down the street from me), makes sure to take these measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/homemadetonic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1171\" title=\"Homemade Tonic by Todd Thrasher. Photo by Johnathan Erns, WP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/homemadetonic.png\" alt=\"Homemade Tonic by Todd Thrasher. Photo by Johnathan Erns, WP\" width=\"332\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/homemadetonic.png 332w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/homemadetonic-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My husband&#8217;s and my favorite cocktail is called The Last Word. It has all the ingredients that I would dislike drinking on their own; however, paired in the right way, they make a perfect combination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 jigger gin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 jigger chartreuse<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 jigger maraschino liquor (cherry flavored grappa)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1 jigger fresh squeezed lime juice<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shake in cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into chilled martini glasses and serve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/lastword.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1173\" title=\"Lastword from the Cocktail Chronicles blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/lastword-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Lastword from the Cocktail Chronicles blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lastword-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/lastword.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you want to learn a little bit more about The Last Word, <a title=\"The Last Word on the Cocktail Chronicles blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cocktailchronicles.com\/2006\/04\/13\/the-last-word\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Cocktail Chronicles<\/a> has a good synopsis. And here&#8217;s a post on <a title=\"Winter Warmth post on casartblog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/archives\/1742\" target=\"_blank\">Slipcovers for Your Walls<\/a> (casart blog) with another cocktail to try and suggested <em>After Hours<\/em><a title=\"Casart Coverings After Hours photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/customize.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Casart<\/a> to go with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Black Eyed Peas,<em> Let&#8217;s Get It Started<\/em>, seems appropriate with this post to <a title=\"Kick Start the Weekend posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?cat=543\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Start Your Weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Embedding disabled so click this link: <a title=\"Black Eyed Peas on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IKqV7DB8Iwg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IKqV7DB8Iwg<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! In light of celebrating, I view the perfect cocktail as art, especially one with pure ingredients, made &#8220;from scratch,&#8221; as we&#8217;d say in baking. Not many people, however, go to such extremes to make their own mixers like tonic water, but Todd Thrasher of Restaurant Eve and PX speakeasy (down the street from me), makes sure to take these measures. My husband&#8217;s and my favorite cocktail is called The Last Word. It has all the ingredients that I would dislike drinking on their own; however, paired in the right way, they make a perfect combination. 1 jigger gin 1 jigger chartreuse 1 jigger maraschino liquor (cherry flavored grappa) 1 jigger fresh squeezed lime juice Shake in cocktail shaker with ice. Pour into chilled martini glasses and serve. If you want to learn a little bit more about The Last Word, the Cocktail Chronicles has a good synopsis. And here&#8217;s a post on Slipcovers for Your Walls (casart blog) with another cocktail to try and suggested After Hours Casart to go with it. Black Eyed Peas, Let&#8217;s Get It Started, seems appropriate with this post to Kick Start Your Weekend. (Embedding disabled so click this link: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IKqV7DB8Iwg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,92,71,543,47,645],"tags":[964,835,960,958,959,963,957],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casartcoverings-com","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-food-and-drink","category-kick-start-the-weekend","category-music","category-slipcovers-for-your-walls-casart-blog","tag-black-eyed-peas","tag-cocktail","tag-homemade-mixers","tag-px","tag-restaurant-eve","tag-the-last-word","tag-todd-thrasher"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cocktail<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art of the Cocktail with Todd Thrasher&#039;s PX bar mixes on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/01\/art-of-the-cocktail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cocktail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Art of the Cocktail with Todd Thrasher&#039;s PX bar mixes on Art Is Everywhere.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2010\/01\/art-of-the-cocktail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-01T13:18:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T18:50:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/homemadetonic.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/art-of-the-cocktail\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/art-of-the-cocktail\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Art of the Cocktail\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-01-01T13:18:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T18:50:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/art-of-the-cocktail\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2010\\\/01\\\/art-of-the-cocktail\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/homemadetonic.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Black Eyed Peas\",\"cocktail\",\"homemade mixers\",\"PX\",\"Restaurant Eve\",\"The Last Word\",\"Todd Thrasher\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Casart\u00ae Coverings\",\"Celebrations &amp; 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