Susan Welsh
RIP Nabisco Famous Wafer, Long Live the Ice Box Cake
The Ice Box Cake has been a celebratory dessert tradition for many families for decades. Years ago, I was lucky enough to discover Ina...
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Susan Welsh
- Jun 8
- 2 min
East Side, West Side, All Around the Town
This weekend we were lucky enough to be escorted throughout Manhattan by our friends Suzanne and Ali—consummate New Yorkers, fellow...
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Susan Welsh
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Happy National Pretzel Day
The first pretzel to arrive in America is rumored to have come over on the Mayflower, brought by pilgrims to trade with Native Americans...
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Susan Welsh
- Mar 30
- 2 min
Tasting the Rubicon
In the decade of my birth, bon vivants were drinking whiskey sours, Tom Collins, and Mai Tais. Fast forward to one of my favorite...
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Susan Welsh
- Mar 7
- 2 min
The Irish of March
Typical March—waking up to a dusting of snow and a chaser of sun that melts it all before my first cup of coffee. Nothing cinematic like...
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Susan Welsh
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Bar Cart Brief: Sotol or Until I Fly to Mexico
It’s been a winter of little sun, no snow, and the aroma of petrichor everywhere. “Petrichor” is from the Greek “petra” meaning stone,...
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Susan Welsh
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Everything's Coming Up Rosés
Last week, Stephanie and I rang in another New Year with a bottle of champagne and a1970 episode of Lawrence Welk’s New Year’s show. The...
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Susan Welsh
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
"My Favorite Cracker is Salami"
Savour, a gourmet grocery and cheese shop in Lambertville is an epicure's dream and owner Shawn Robbins is the perfect spirit guide to...
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Susan Welsh
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
Jeoparetif!
These days my aperitifs are less potent potables and more quotes and quotables. That is to say, the 7 o’clock broadcast of Jeopardy...
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Susan Welsh
- Feb 18, 2022
- 2 min
TOP NOTCH BUNS!
Sweden gave the world Abba, one of the greatest pop bands of all time. But there is so much more—white nights, northern lights and a...
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Susan Welsh
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
The art collection in my father’s liquor store was a random hodgepodge of local scenes by local artists, a cheap knockoff of Édouard...
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Susan Welsh
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Magic Bar
These days I’m always looking for magic—any dose of something otherworldly and utterly enchanting, so Amy and Tim’s invitation to their...
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Susan Welsh
- May 25, 2021
- 1 min
What's in Your Wine Glass?
Today is National Wine Day in America—that’s every day in our household. Holiday, or not, you should choose your 600-800 grapes...
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Susan Welsh
- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
Yesterday's Wine
My father will forever speak to me through glasses of Sauvignon Blanc, his favorite varietal before giving up wine altogether. Too bad I...
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Susan Welsh
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
Tomboys & Antenna TV
There are a ton of things I’m looking forward to once the world opens up again. Travel, for instance. Paris and Barcelona are on the...
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Susan Welsh
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
Bar Cart Briefs: BITTERS
In 1919 US Congress ratified the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages. That same year, in...
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Susan Welsh
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
Celebrated Leap Frogs
One winter’s night in the mid 70's my parents and I took the journey along a narrow, twisting road overlooking the Delaware River to the...
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Susan Welsh
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
Bar Cart Brief: The Classics
Book carts and bar carts—these are a few of my favorite things. For decades, when I walked into Farley's bookstore I would head straight...
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Susan Welsh
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
An Inauguration Toast
On January 20, 1961, my grandfather attended the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as the 35th president of the United States....
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Susan Welsh
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
KISS TODAY GOODBYE
2020 was supposed to be a very good year. There was a trip planned to Italy—an adventure that was to begin in Rome, where I still dream...
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