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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 16h

This should be fun! I promise I'll smile.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 29/09/2026

Lilikoi and maracuya are more fun to say.

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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 · 18/09/2026

I’m a fan, but obviously not a “true fan”, since I now see I put the umlaut on the wrong “o”. 🤦‍♂️

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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

That’s what Hamburger America is all about. Except that theirs are significantly better than a lot of those were back in the day. HA uses better ingredients and technique.

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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 · 01/09/2026

... at the top, where we can find them... and keep them up-to-date, please!

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself w/ 10 acts you’ve seen live: Cecile McLorin Salvant English Beat Monster Magnet Yosvany Terry Masada String Trio Shriekback Jimmy Page Jeff Parker Blue Oyster Cult Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (That’s ten... I can count.)

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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 · 21/08/2026

I vividly remember touring the Peloponnese, and two buses of tourists from Japan or Korea (forget which) wound up at the same archaeological spots as us. A few of them would come see the site, and the rest stayed in the parking lot taking photos of each other in front of their bus. Every time.

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

Mouquin’s was a famous restaurant in Midtown. Some related images and an amusing police blotter tidbit about a legal kerfuffle around their vermouth: www.ny1920.com/may-14

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May 14 — NY 1920s

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

Apparently this ad appeared in The New Yorker, May 14, 1927.

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

Mouquin was non-alcoholic vermouth produced in NYC during prohibition. They made it in both dry and sweet varieties. This recipe doesn’t seem to hint at which.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 06/08/2026

I think it is not really all that weird. Big ball overhead, strong light source.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 02/08/2026

Highly entertaining story about Karl “Von Herrmann”.

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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

The Total Tiki app is for iPhone/iPad only, but Total Tiki Online is web-based and cross-platform.

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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 · 09/07/2026

Incidentally, I’ve been using the word “reclamation” for these obscure drinks that are plucked out of old books and given new life or, more often, life they never had in the first place.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 09/07/2026

Seems the Bebbo is somewhat like the Ensslin Aviation: for whatever reason, it was almost never drunk in the past, but appeared in enough books as filler that some of us latched on to it during the Cocktail Renaissance. The idea (Bees’ Knees+OJ modifier) aligns well with the Petraske school.

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Martin Doudoroff @doudoroff.com · 09/07/2026

Being contentious about naming is an important idea, generally. In this particular case, I’ve found nothing alarming. “Bebbo” is currently in use by UNICEF for a parenting app. Those two syllables may carry meaning in multiple languages (TBD). Bebbo also seems to be an uncommon surname.

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

Ha ha! He renamed Boothby’s (somewhat peculiar) “French 75” to “Frenchy”.

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

Not strictly. For example, when he renamed the “Floor Polish” to “Flushing”, it moved down several places. I haven’t sat down to a complete comparison, but so far all the renamings I have seen didn’t stray wildly.

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

Morten Kjaerulff has pointed out that Vic Bergeron replicated the Bebbo in his 1947 book.

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

Haigh could’ve gotten it from Jones, but he also might’ve gotten it from Marco & Gale or some other book in the interim. He had amassed a pretty decent book collection for back then. Early days.

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

The cherry on top is that most of the crap in Hollywood Cocktails then got shoveled into Boothby’s 1934 edition of World Drinks! So, yeah, there’s a “Brown Derby” recipe there! Corroboration! 😜

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

A similar example: the goddamn Hollywood Cocktails novelty booklet (also 1933) spawned the “Brown Derby” (merely the De Rigueur plagiarized from the Savoy, itself a towering abomination of plagiarism). That one crops up all over the place, including DeGroff’s Craft of the Cocktail.

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