TIME OUT NY's Eating & Drinking

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TIME OUT NEW YORK'S "EATING AND DRINKING"

    TIME OUT started in London, but a (largely unprofitable) New York edition
has been published recently.  The October 28-November 4, 1999 issue had "The
third annual Eating & Drinking Awards."  Also published has been EATING &
DRINKING 2000 (_TIME OUT NEW YORK_ NEW ANNUAL GUIDE), 264 pages, $9.95.
    It's a good way to check out food & drink trends.  Unfortunately, the
magazine is not on Nexis.
    The July 22-29, 1999 issue, pages 21 and 23, listed recipes of these
drinks from these places:

PIMM'S CUP (Blackbird bar)
WHITE PEACH FADEAWAY (Michael Jordan's Steakhouse NYC)
RED CAT COCKTAIL (The Red Cat)
ISLAND PUNCH (Negril)
WHITE SANGRIA (Boca Chica)
RED SNAPPER (A.K.A. BLOODY MARY) (St. Regis Hotel)
PINK LEMONADE (27 Standard)
MOJITO (L-Ray)

    The July 23-30, 1998 issue was devoted to "The top 25 summer cocktails."
>From pages 13-18:

PARTY DRINKS
1. P.M.S. (Local 138, Neil Lacy)
2. Purple Haze (Scully on Spring, Jennifer Hatzman)
3. Trojan (Barmacy, Jennifer Proctor)
4. Bongwater (Burrito Bar, Greg Yerman)
5. Blue Room Martini (Le Cirque 2000, Bill Ghodbane)
NEW CLASSICS
1. Soho Shaker (Magnum, Craig Ziser)
2. Bloody Oranj Martini (Cub Room, Dennis Mullally)
3. Belmont Breeze (Rainbow Promenade Bar, Dale Degroff)
4. Prairie Martini (The Grange Hall, Jacqui Smith)
5. Palmyra (Chez Es Saada, Holly Spencer)
COOL QUENCHERS
1. Pink Pussycat (Candy Bar & Grill, Andrew Currie)
2. Bible Belt (Cowgirl Hall of Fame, Johnny Ray)
3. Akira (Torch, Karmen Guy)
4. Mimosa par excellence ("21" Club, Michael Shannon)
5. Rainforest Tea (The Greatest Bar on Earth, Andrea Immer)
Bollini (Flute, CHairty Rebl)
TROPICAL
1. Tiki-puka-puka (Asia de Cuba, "any bartender will do")
2. Crocodile Cooler (Botanica, Susan Lee)
3. Passion Fruit Bolido Brasileira (Boca Chica, Jack Dammit (sic))
4. Caipirinha (Coffee Shop, Ahmir Araugo)
CLASSICS
1. Red Snapper (a.k.a. Bloody Mary) (The King Cole Bar and Lounge, Bill
Higgins)
2. Southside (Four Seasons, John Varro)
3. Grand Margarita (Grand Bar, Jay Rivera)
4. Bellini (Cipriani, Dino Carafa)
5. French 75 (Bar 6, Henry Lopez)

     I don't have the time to write out each drink, but will be request.
Anyone, this (with my other postings) is a start to recording some of these
names.

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---------------------------------------------Ric Burns's NEW YORK (briefly
continued)

    Wow, does this thing suck.
    There's one more episode on Thursday (it's supposed to be the best
one--NY in the 1920s) and then Ric Burns does the other 70 years in just two
hours in the spring.  It's all too much, and he does it badly.
    In episode four, half of it was devoted to the 146 people who died in the
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire.  You'd never know that 1021 people had
died in 1904 in the General Slocum maritime tragedy.
    You'd also never know that New York had a fire department, a police
department, any restaurants, Coney Island, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, a borough
in Queens...
    I told a librarian that the 1911 opening of the New York Public Library
on 42nd and Broadway would be in part four.  The New York Public Library was
never mentioned!
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan was on hand to provide an insufficent etymology
of "skyscraper" (he claimed it was from ships from Liverpool; the term was
applied to lots of things that touched the sky, but started as the name of a
racehorse).