The Blood & Whiskey
the original
This is from my first B&W post, May of 2021, back during lockdown…
Well, I haven’t gotten out of the house much lately, having been hunkered down on final rewrites for a new book (The First Kennedys, coming in Feb.). So I’ve improvised with what’s left in the liquor cabinet and concocted a mini cocktail that’s a keeper.
2 parts bourbon (I used Bulleitt)
1 part amaro (I used Ramazotti)
dash of bitters (I used Angostura)
cherry
thin-slice orange twist
It’s got a nice moody, dark-red color so I’m going to call it the Blood and Whiskey.
Song…
The title of this newsletter comes from a Tom Waits song, one of my all time favorites, Tom Traubert’s Blues (aka “Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen,” aka “Waltzing Matilda”), about drunk guy in a bad neighborhood in foreign land, with a “wound that will never heal,” wearing “an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey.”
And here’s that song weaved into an L.A.-themed Blood & Whiskey playlist:
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