Thought for the Day

"Nothing can deflate a pretentious cocktail faster than a sharp poke with a paper umbrella."
(Pete Wells, Staging a Rum Rebellion, NYTimes.com)

From the same article, I also particularly like the following description of a drink that I would be glad to be sampling about now, leaves or no:

Adam Bernbach, who manages the bar at Proof, a restaurant in Washington, [says] that rum makes him think of colonial taverns, which led him to blend aged Martinique rum with maple syrup, orange zest, and chocolate bitters in the New England 1773. It calls out to be drunk after the leaves are off the trees.

Drinking December!

image: Cocktail Umbrella (Kona, Hawaii), Adam (AZAdam)