So fun that once again, my friend — playwright, sommelier and wine & spirits writer — Gaetano Marangelli tapped me for a recipe for his annual holiday cocktail column for The Shepherd Express, an alternative newspaper in Milwaukee.
I adapted the Spice Cookie cocktail recipe from my Peterson’s Holiday Helper, which was just one of the tasty recipes in the article, the others pulled from their local restaurants and mixologists.
I’ve been remiss about “socializing” all the wonderful articles from Gaetano over these past few years (blame my pandemic brain). But I’m correcting that now.
Last year (2022), Peterson’s Holiday Helper owned the column — if I do say so. I contributed a punch recipe (“Christmas Consolation”), a coffee drink (“Double-stick Spiked Coffee”) and a cocktail (“Santa’s Helper Scotch Holiday Sour”). Check out that 2022 article with recipes, here.
In 2021, I contributed one of my holiday punch recipes — “Liquid Mistletoe” — inspired by office party shenanigans. (Dan Salyer contributed the accompanying photo for the article and for here).
And for the 2021 New Year cocktail season article, Gaetano included one of my favorite (Swedish, Italian, easy – and resonant for writers) recipes — the “Lucialini”.
The out-of-print (aka limited and therefore “collectors”) edition of Peterson’s Holiday Helper continues to sell on Etsy — watch this space for a potential reprint.
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