Via Bartender: Are cocktails too complicated?
Via Art of Drink: No.
Via Bitters & Twisted: Why drink cocktails? and, A Little Bit of Favouritism.
Via BoingBoing: Nope. High fructose corn syrup does not cause pancreatic cancer.
Via cocktail virgin slut: notes about eggs. Starting to see some details of presentations from this year's Tales of the Cocktail, which is good and interesting and another reminder that not being able to pop over to New Orleans for week is pretty frustrating for a cocktail geek.
Via Barbore: there's only one place where a confession about straining technique could turn into a discussion of the history of the daiquiri and the place of the blender in the modern bartender's toolkit.