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El Diablo Ingredients 1.5 oz. Camarena Silver or Reposado .75 oz. Creme de cassis 3 oz. Ginger beer .05 oz. Lime Juice Blackberry and Mint...
Santo Spirits: The Perfect Tequila Cocktails for Summer
Alcohol, Best of Food, Beverage, cocktail, cocktail recipe, Food, Lifestyle, Recipe, Spirits, TequilaCucumber Cooler Empress your friends with the ultimate summer sipper, the Cucumber Cooler made with Santo’s newly launched Reposado. The...
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Cab, Cabernet, Featured, Lifestyle, Pinot Noir, WineThe typical California winery story: a retired, semi-successful dentist buys a small plot of land and moves there with...
Blue Lifestyle Update: February 2021
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Ah, February. A month of love. A...
Blue Lifestyle Update: January 2021
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Welcome to 2021 everybody. We made it!...
Beef Short Ribs with an Island Accent
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipeBy Diane Rossen Worthington Beef short ribs are one of the most flavorful cuts of beef. Long, slow- cooking produces...
Best of Food, Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, Recipe, The BL Minute, UncategorizedBy Diane Rossen Worthington Serves 4 to 6 Sidebars: different rice varieties 1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 1/4 inch...
Polenta Bolognese: Double Comfort for Chilly Nights
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipeBy Diane Rossen Worthington The other day as I was checking out at the market, the woman behind me asked...
Valentine’s Day Tequila Cocktails From Santo Spirits
Alcohol, Beverage, cocktail, cocktail recipe, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, Recipe, Spirits, Tequila, The BL MinuteThe Santo Love Potion Cocktail by Sammy Hagar 1 oz @SantoSpirit Blanco ½ oz @SammysBeachBarRum Redhead Macadamia Nut Rum ½ oz Sammy’s Beach...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about all the articles that offer a look back at the year 2020....
Blue Lifestyle Update: December 2020
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Well, it's December. Can you believe it?...
Christmas-Inspired Tequila Cocktails to Enjoy this Season
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, cocktail, cocktail recipe, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, Mezcal, Pick of the Week, Recipe, Spirits, The BL MinuteSanto Spice Revelation Sweet and spicy lovers delight with the Santo Spice Revelation cocktail! This distinctive cocktail combines all the...
Holiday Vermouth and Wine Pairings from Sonoma’s Top Cheesemonger
Alcohol, Best of Food, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, WineWhimsical and traditional cheese pairings by expert Sonoma Cheesemonger, James Ayers to enjoy at home this holiday season. In addition...
Alcohol, Blog, cocktail, cocktail recipe, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, Recipe, SpiritsGrand Brulot is hand-crafted in the Cognac region of France and aged in French oak barrels to allow the...
Blue Lifestyle Update: November 2020
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Hark! The holidays are upon us. We...
Truffle Season – An Interactive Cooking Demonstration
Alcohol, Best of Food, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Recipe, The BL MinuteFor one night only on Thursday, December 10th, consumers have the opportunity to participate in a highly interactive tasting...
Cocktails To Help Us Give Thanks
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, cocktail, cocktail recipe, Lifestyle, Recipe, Spirits, TequilaIn a year that has been so hard for many, if not all, there are still things to be...
Redhead Wines Shine: Reviewing Testarossa’s Current Releases
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Cab, Cabernet, Featured, Lifestyle, WineIt’s a familiar story. Diana and Rob Jensen were both working in tech while making wine as a hobby...
Cocktails shaken and stirred in the right glassware
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, Spirits, WhiskeySeasonal cocktail recipes to try at home from NYC-based mixologist Zane Harris, crafted for Riedel’s Drink Specific Glassware Collection. Zane...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Travel, UncategorizedI Was Just Thinking... . . . about fires. The fires of California, Oregon and elsewhere. Although I’m an East...
Alcohol, Blog, Featured, LifestyleA decade ago a group of determined wine executives recognized the growing Prosecco trend and scoured the Veneto region...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about all the people who ask me how I’m “doing.” It’s a question...
Blue Lifestyle Update August 2020
Blog, Featured, LifestyleEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. August already. It feels like the year...
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about how wealthy people travel compared to the rest of us. Read a...
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about the glories of frequent flyer miles and frequent guest award points. Especially...
Blue Lifestyle Update: July 2020
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Hello Blue Lifestyle-ites. Welcome to July. The...
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipeRecipe Serves 4 to 6 1 large piece burratta, about 6 ounces 3 medium heirloom tomatoes, (red, green and yellow) thinly sliced 3...
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . how different this Fourth of July was from all the other Fourth of...
Grilled Cornish Hens with Peach Glaze and Grilled Peaches Usher in Summer Barbecuing Season
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipePeople often are confused on what the difference is between a Cornish game hen and a small chicken. Actually,...
Nectarines Add A Taste of Summer to Upside-Down Cake
Best of Food, Blog, Books, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipeMy mom was not a baker. She could barbecue a steak and make a great salad but when it...
A French Mexican Mashup: Mexican Cheese Souffle
Best of Food, Blog, Books, Food, Lifestyle, Recipe, TravelI am obsessed with souffles. I have been known to whip one up when I am feeling blue or...
The Best Food Holidays in America (A Definitive List)
Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, UncategorizedWe Americans love food. We love food so much that we can't seem to stop eating it. Not to...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about hotels and how many will not be re-opening their doors in the...
Blue Lifestyle Update: June 2020
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. Well the Update took the month of...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Travel... I Was Just Thinking . . . about how time is so elastic. Remember when you were young and...
Blue Lifestyle Update: April 2020
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedMarch was a long month. April feels like it has been longer. The Covid-19 pandemic has more or less...
Covid-19 Is Upending the Alcoholic Beverage Industry
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Featured, LifestyleThe latest piece by Joseph V Micallef in Forbes reveals how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the alcoholic beverage...
Best of Travel, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... . . . about Las Vegas and all the money its hotels, casinos, and restaurants have...
Best of Travel, Blog, Lifestyle, TravelI Was Just Thinking... Is it just me, or do you find you’re getting less work done when you’re at...
Covid-19 Donation and Charity List
Blog, Featured, LifestyleIf you are looking for ways to help those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, whether its healthcare workers on...
Blue Lifestyle Update: February 2020
Blog, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, TravelEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. It's February. Spring is right around the...
Blog, LifestyleLast week we went to a local restaurant. It was 7:10 PM (my wife likes to eat early) and...
Blog, Food, Lifestyle, TravelI just re-read the late A. A. Gill’s vicious and incredibly funny take-down of Chez L’Ami Louis that appeared...
5 Unique Date Ideas for Valentines Day
Lifestyle, UncategorizedValentine’s day is one day, out of the year, we need to make extra-special. Whether it’s for our friends,...
What Wines to Enjoy With Each Oscar Nominated Best Picture
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedThe Oscars are right around the corner and now that there has been some time to digest the nominations,...
Blue Lifestyle Update January 2020
Blog, Featured, LifestyleEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage and lifestyle. Happy New Year everybody! Hope your decade...
Blog, Featured, LifestyleThere have been debates about the cost of healthy living in America for years. But, what’s the reality? The sad...
4 Places to Celebrate New Years in LA
Blog, Holiday, Lifestyle, UncategorizedNew Year's eve—it's the biggest party of the year, on the very last day of the year. Except this...
Blue Lifestyle Update: December 2019
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Recipe, UncategorizedEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage, and lifestyle. It's not just the end of the...
Easy Holiday Shopping for the Homecook
Blog, Featured, Holiday, LifestyleTake the Hassle out of Holiday Shopping for Cook’s on Your List Each year I put together my "Gifts for...
The Musts of Weekends at Wineries
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Travel, WineWeekends at wineries can make for fun, memorable trips. Not only do you get to tour a new area,...
5 Places to Celebrate Halloween in LA
Blog, Featured, Holiday, LifestyleHalloween can be a lot more than just trick-or-treating or getting smashed off some questionably preserved and flavored punch...
4 Ways to Use Pumpkin from Around the World
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, RecipePumpkins. Around this time of year, they are everywhere. But aside from jack-o-lantern’s, pumpkin spice lattes, and pumpkin pie,...
4 Halloween Cocktails to Knock Your Costumes Off
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, Recipe, SpiritsHalloween is the perfect time to get a little…. weird. So forget the Blue Moons and dry ice Kool-Aid...
The Blue Lifestyle Update: October 2019
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, LifestyleEverything you never knew you needed to know about food, beverage and lifestyle. Happy October! Fall is in full swing....
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Non-alcoholicCoffee is the fuel that feeds our modern lifestyle. Marketers have done well over the past century to build...
Blog, Books, Featured, LifestyleThere always seems to be a rush of products released in the months before the holidays. Cookbooks are no...
A (Slightly) Alternate History of the Pumpkin Spice Latte
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Non-alcoholicOh, Fall. You are my favorite time of year. The heat of summer is growing thin. The leaves are...
Rudy Maxa’s Tours: Newsletter #4
Blog, Featured, Holiday, Lifestyle, TravelScoring a Seat for 'Saturday Night Live' Ever wanted to be a member of the audience for NBC’s “Saturday Night...
Rudy Maxa’s Tours: Newsletter #2
Blog, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, TravelShort Takes It was only a matter of time until someone made a movie built around Uber. Witness the recent...
10 Cities and the Foods They are Known For
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, TravelThese days, anyone can find regional varieties of food in just about any major city. Seeing Southern Fried Chicken...
The 2019 New York World Wine & Spirits Competition
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Cabernet, Featured, Lifestyle, Riesling, Spirits, Whiskey, Wine, ZinfandelThe New York World Wine & Spirits Competition is now accepting entries for 2019. In its nine-year history, The New...
An Exclusive Q+A with Rock Star Chef Anthony Bourdain
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, UncategorizedAnthony Bourdain was an exceptional figure in American culture. The authenticity he displayed in his writing and TV shows,...
Fire & Wine: How Wildfires are Impacting the Flavor of Wine
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, WineThe 2017 fire season saw unprecedented levels of destruction for the California wine industry. Eleven California vineyards were damaged...
The Best Summer Food Festivals in LA
Blog, Featured, Film, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, TravelSummer is finally here, and along with it is a multitude of food festivals looking to cater to hungry...
Your Guide to Father’s Day Drinking Gifts
Beverage, Blog, Books, Featured, Holiday, LifestyleChoosing the right gift is never easy. To find a gift that is at once meaningful, useful, and fun...
The End of Craft Beer? Sam Adams’ Company Buys Dogfish Head Brewery
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, TravelPlus, gene-edited crops are making their way into our food supply, but governments still haven’t figured out how to...
Here’s the Full List of James Beard Awards 2019 Winners
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekCongratulations to all the chef and restaurant winners The James Beard Foundation announced the year’s list of chef and restaurant finalists a...
Anthony Bourdain Loved Los Angeles; Here’s Why
Blog, Featured, Film, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, TravelThe itinerant traveler counted L.A. as one of his favorite cities in the world Despite the traffic, oppressive sunshine, and...
Where to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Los Angeles
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, SpiritsThink Cinco de Mayo is just like any other holiday? Think again: In Los Angeles, the fifth of May...
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekFood reporters and editors from The New York Times and Eater pick their favorite new cookbooks of the season. Compelled...
20 Best Things to Do in L.A. This Spring
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Food, Holiday, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, TravelWelcome to Blue Lifestyle’s city guide, a list of 20 essential things to do in Los Angeles this spring....
8 Cocktails to Get You in the Mood for April
Beverage, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Organic, Pick of the Week, SpiritsApril showers bring May flowers, right? But April isn’t necessarily a rainy month across the United States. And flowers...
San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower, Symbol of a Skyline Transformed by Tech
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekThe Salesforce Tower, a massive glass and steel skyscraper visible everywhere in San Fransico, was completed in May 2018,...
Chef Edward Lee Discovers America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine in “Buttermilk Graffiti”
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the Week, TravelEdward Lee may be a multi-year James Beard Award nominee and “Top Chef” participant, but the subjects of his...
10 Refreshing Cocktails to Drink This Spring
Alcohol, Beverage, Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Organic, Pick of the Week, SpiritsWe've assembled a list of springtime cocktails that are unabashedly cheery and bright, made with fresh produce and leafy...
The 10 Hottest Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now, March 2019
Blog, Featured, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekYou’ve probably been asked (or asked yourself) this question before: Where should I eat right now? Luckily, the editors...
Lowell Herb’s Cannabis-Infused Café to Open This Summer In West Hollywood
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekThese days, it’s not difficult to find curated weed parties, exclusive cannabis dinners, pot-infused yoga classes, and all sorts...
Here Are the 2019 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists
Blog, Featured, Food, Lifestyle, Pick of the WeekLast week, the James Beard Foundation announced its Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists for 2019. The list promises to...