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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 24/09/2026

Last night, at a NYC restaurant, we were charged a $5 service fee… for paying our bill. Details: spiritsandcocktails.community/t/hospitalit... The short of it: if you are presented with a QR code to settle your tab, proceed with meticulous caution. #anithospitality #parasites

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 22/09/2026

On the other hand, this year has been the best year for strawberries in my entire life. After decades of mostly meh, I’ve had ready access to terrific strawberries in 2026, and the curious thing is that a lot are coming from Driscoll’s, particularly their organic line. Something has happened.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 22/09/2026

In these parts (tri-state), this year has not been good for peaches. They’ve varied between mid and bad. I’ve barely seen any nectarines—I presume the crop failed.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 22/09/2026

These guys are making drums from used bourbon barrel staves from Buffalo Trace; it’s a fascinating new drum design process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02j...

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This Is How Drums Are Made

YouTube video by Rick Beato

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 17/09/2026

A tidy collection of Eddie Clarke* recipes from the 40s–60s are now added to Total Mixology. Two books in the bibliography and he even has his own keyword. *not to be confused with “Fast” Eddie Clarke of Mötorhead

Photo of Eddie Clarke from the cover of his 1954 book “Practical Bar Management”

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 15/09/2026

New recipe for September for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers is live!

For September, we are thrilled to present an exclusive 1930s original from Don the Beachcomber, recently-decoded by Beachbum Berry: Don’s Swizzle!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 14/09/2026

New Yorker City cocktail lovers oughta go check out Echo Lake. It’s really not hard to get—a short walk from two L train stops and one G train stop. Good daiquiris, good rums, good alternatives, good food, windows (!), plenty of space, very *civilized*.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 08/09/2026

Weekday lunch remains on life support in NYC, but Hamburger America is one of the great exceptions.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/09/2026

While I’m talking trash, is it me, or is Fever Tree the saddest excuse for carbonated beverages on the market? For all their marketing reach, their stuff always seems flat to me.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/09/2026

If your web site has any involuntary pop-up or pop-over solicitation that interrupts your visitors, you are trash and should reconsider your life choices. If you have one of those idiotic EU cookie compliance things on your pages, you are also trash. Eliminate the cookies, eliminate the problem.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/09/2026

Nine out of the last seventeen bottles I just had delivered from Astor Wines & Spirits are from the Haus Alpenz portfolio.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 25/08/2026

Today’s junk mail came in handy: I used it to smash a mosquito in the hallway.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 20/08/2026

Total Mixology and Total Tiki Online will be *offline* for a chunk of today while we move servers. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 14/08/2026

New recipe for August is live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 13/08/2026

One of the most famous—and notoriously overpriced—liquor stores in New York State

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 11/08/2026

Narrative structure of a Fire Island vacation: - the Train of Hope from Penn Station - the Shuttle Bus of Anticipation (to the ferry) - the Ferry of Joy (to the barrier island) - … bliss … - the Ferry of Sorrows (to the mainland) - the Bus of Regrets (to the train) - the Train of Despair (home)

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 09/08/2026

The far-better-than-it-needed-to-be Don the Beachcomber documentary “The Donn of Tiki” is coming to streaming! apple.co/4xq6V8P If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you do.

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The Donn of Tiki - Apple TV

The Donn of Tiki tells the larger-than-life story of Ernest Gantt, better known as Don the Beachcomber, the mysterious adventurer whose singular visio…

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Introducing The Cocktail Colloquy, an essay series on the state of the Martini. It launches today with a new piece of Martini scholarship by Lowell Edmunds! robertsimonson.substack.com/p/the-cockta...

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The Cocktail Colloquy: The Martini Now

The Debut of a New Essay Series by the World's Foremost Martini Scholars. Launching the Series is None Other Than Lowell Edmunds.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 22/07/2026

Someone posted this vintage nonsense on Instagram for another purpose, but removed from the context of bad science, it kind of encapsulates the human condition. Even the “smartest” amongst us stumble often at reason and judgment, and what greater morons are there than those convinced they aren’t?

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 14/07/2026

New recipe for July live for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This. So much this.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 05/07/2026

I sluggishly infer that the mainstream acceptance of LLMs (“AI”) in daily life is as a substitute for computer literacy?

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Very cool new archive online: 5,000 historic American restaurant menus, searchable by location, year, and other settings. One Portland menu supposedly featured "Mount Tabor owls, roasted" (possibly a joke?) which may be a challenge to recreate for contemporary chefs! pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...

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5,000 Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920

Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 21/06/2026

Now that’s an inspirational class motto!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 18/06/2026

Every flyer in my mail, every unsolicited text message, every unsolicited call (that I mercifully never have to answer), every desperate plea to send money to some campaign is just one more reminder how utterly broken our relationship with democracy is. This is not what I want. 🇺🇸

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 17/06/2026

Inspired by F. Monti, I’m on my third Rum Collins this week, and drifting toward the conclusion it’s the most underrated classic of them all. ¡Viva Cuba!

Rum Collins; Build in a bar glass filled with cracked ice: 2 bar spoons superfine sugar, juice of 1 lime, 1.5 oz light cuban-style rum. Fill with seltzer. From Sloppy Joe’s Cocktail Manual 1932-1933, p. 9.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 11/06/2026

New June recipe for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers is live!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 07/06/2026

I have tried so many fish pâtés, and they just aren’t that good.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 04/06/2026

Pretty much every week is gin week to me, but Philip Duff and Karl Finegan are trying to give the upcoming week connecting World Gin Day and World Martini Day a boost with bar participation and social media activity. I made ’em a web site featuring Rachel Rowberry’s artwork. worldginweek.com

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World Gin Week

An annual week of activities celebrating and exploring gin, bookended by World Gin Day and World Martini Day

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 21/05/2026

Interesting book. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in rum, naval history and/or mercantile history.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 19/05/2026

A customer saw fit to forward me a phony research paper he generated with some LLM about the history of a tropical drink. It’s self-assured and all peppered up with 32 citations, and it’s total bullshit. This is pure, simultaneous misinformation AND disinformation in a frictionless environment. ☣️

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 19/05/2026

Is there any common/shared concept of the future beyond the light entertainment or the next sale at crapmart?

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 16/05/2026

If there was a corporate death penalty, Meta might be a superb candidate. Pry Whatsapp from their grubby mitts and there’s absolutely nothing left in the public interest.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 14/05/2026

New recipe for May now LIVE for Total Tiki Online and Total Tiki (app) customers!

Crop of vintage photo of brunette lady dancing in outlandish faux-polynesian costume

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Niche Neega @strange.blacksky.app · 09/05/2026

They gave him an award and called him an environmental activist lmaooo

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/05/2026

Props to The Guardian for the headline “Flogging a wooden horse” in reference to Nolan‘s looming bombastic adaptation of The Odyssey.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/05/2026

“Good energy” seems to have become an established euphemism for a deliberately loud bar or restaurant. There is nothing good about it.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 05/05/2026

Capsule review of Cocktail Omakase (NYC): civilized, makes sense for exactly two people for date or catch-up with set time window (1 hour); we had the low alcohol option, drinks were flavorful, restrained and very Japanese; “bites” pairings all tasty (not a meal, but a nice start). Decent value.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 23/04/2026

We tried to grab a drink at the lobby bar at the Waldorf-Astoria last night and were informed there is now a two drink minimum. Anti-hospitality.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 20/04/2026

The problem with Cocchi Dopo Teatro is that it comes in 500ml bottles, instead 1.75 liter handles.

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