The Three Amigos. The Magnificent Seven. Those action heros shot back their whiskey neat. So what do Hollywood Westerns have to do with cocktail mixology? An international panel of mixologists will be parsing the provenance of punch, sift through stories about the sling and hightail after the history of highballs on Friday afternoon at a program that is part of the annual Tales of the Cocktail festival in New Orleans.
One of the panelists, brit Wayne Collins, poured out his theories of evolution of the deluge of drinks to Times Picayune food editor Judy Walker . While trying to classify types of drinks into families, he came up with a list of seven--punch, milk punch, sling, cocktail, sour, cobbler and highball--which he was later able to distill down to three--punch, slings and cocktails. Just as cooks have to learn the mother sauces--bechamel, hollandaise, mayonaise and espagnole--from which all other sauces emerge, so bartenders can classify drinks into family lines, a logical progression on how to get from say a Tom Collins to a vodka rickey, just by switching out the fruit. The cocktail panel takes place Friday, July 18, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the Hotel Monteleone. Seminars, sipping and spirited dinners will take place in various locations in New Orleans through July 20. For more information and tickets, click here .
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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