There's plenty of no tallent hacks available in the music industry (see Ke$ha). A lot of times all you really need is a decent body and the ability to dance well on stage while wearing close to nothing (I hear Brittany has a new album). I'm a guy so I'm not complaining much. But it's really refreshing when someone comes along and just drops a note on you so strongly that all you can do is sit there and listen. It's a marvelous thing. That's what Adele has done to me.
But maybe she's just one of those that sounds good in the studio but not so much live. What would she sound like in your favorite coffee shop or pub. Could she wow you if she was in your living room? What about on a roof top?
Here's your Clip O' The Week
Monday, April 25, 2011
Nuvo For Her
Nuvo For Her has done relatively well in the marketplace. They've targetted themselves specifically towards women. I personally don't care for the way it tastes but it's not made for me so who cares.
The new extension that they are coming out with tastes 10 times better. This summer they will be releasing a Lemon flavored one and a Cocomut flavored one. And to kick it all off they have released the below video.
Giggidy!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Howard Shultz Saved Seattle
For the last couple of days we’ve been having a fun little conversation at work that was sparked in part by a video gone viral of a Seattle Sonic fan being a D-Bag at a book signing. First off, not all Sonic fans are d-bags. Most of them are decent folk, but every so often the morons gather, put on their hoods, grab their pitch forks, and go a-huntin’. It’s been this way since the dawn of time.
There is a group of people that blame Howard Shultz for Seattle’s current lack of an NBA team. He sold the team in 2006 to Clay Bennett. Part of this sale was based on Clay’s “good faith” promise that he would take good care of the team and make every effort to keep them in Seattle. We all knew Clay was lying but the truth is that no one else was going to buy the team and Howard didn’t want to own it anymore. So he sold it to Bennett who, as predicted, moved the team to Oklahoma.
When you strip it down to its base, the gist of “Howard Shultz is the Devil” argument is that if he had never sold the team to Clay Bennett, Bennett would not have been able to move them to Oklahoma City. The conspiracy theorists believe that Howard had to know that this would happen, and if he didn’t then he is clearly a moron so we should hate him for not knowing, or for knowing and doing it anyway. Hell let’s hate him for both. That’s what Evil deserves.
I’m not sure how to simplify this more but I’ll take a crack at it.
Let’s say your neighbor sells his house to someone. Your new neighbor, let’s call him “Ray Tennant” let’s the house and yard go to shit. He’s parking old beat up cars on the lawn. What lawn you can see has 3 foot high grass on it. Some of the windows are broken and have been “repaired” with plywood. The paint is peeling; the roof is a mossy mess. His property value is taking a nose dive and yours is plummeting right along with it. You’re not happy with him but you’re even more upset with your old neighbor. He was a decent neighbor when he lived there. He kept the yard lookin
Your old neighbor was tired of living there and wanted to sell. No one else was buying but Ray and the offer was good. Deep down he knew he was kidding himself when he believed Ray’s “I’ll take good care of her” comment, but are we really so petty to begrudge a guy for selling his house to the only one that wanted to buy it?
I ask this question because, some have actually screamed that he should have kept the team, even though he didn’t want to be a part of the NBA any longer.
So let’s rewind the clock back to 1998. The Seattle Sonics, at that time owned by the Ackerley Group, let George Karl go. This, sports fans, was the true end of professional basketball in Seattle. All George Karl had accomplished in his 7 years as HC was to win over 55 games every year and make the playoffs EVERY YEAR! To include a loss in the 1996 finals to Superman, Batman, and Rodman (arguably the best trio in NBA history). But Ackerley, and General Manager Wally Walker weren’t happy with this. A change had to be made. A decision that Walker would later say he regretted.
In 2001, after a failed attempt through the local government at getting a new stadium, Ackerley sold the team. In truth the team would have moved elsewhere if not for Howard Shultz. Let me say that again, because it bears repeating. Howard Shultz was the only thing that stood in the way of Seattle losing the Sonics in 2001.
No Sonics in Seattle back then would have meant, No 2 time WNBA World Champion Seattle Storm. No Head Coach Nate McMillan. No Ray Allen in Seattle. No Rashard Lewis…and in all fairness to the conspiracy theorist…yes it also means No sale to Clay Bennett. But for 5 years we had an NBA franchise when hordes of people outside of Seattle, to include the troll known as David Stern, tried to steal them from us.
This alone could be enough to give Howard a pass for his perceived sins against Sonics fans. At least it should be. But since it isn’t I want to point something else out.
Howard Shultz is a successful business man. He could call any city in the world his home. After all, he is the Chairman and CEO of a little known company called Starbucks (perhaps you’ve heard of them). . He could have his corporate office anywhere in the country if he wanted to. But he doesn’t and he hasn’t. He lives here in Seattle. If he wanted to move the company headquarters to Chicago no one in Seattle could stop him. We couldn’t stop Boeing from doing it in May of 2000. What makes us think we could stop Shultz.
Howard Shultz could take his money, his company, and all the revenue that the Seattle economy thrives on and move it to Singapore if he wanted to. Imagine how quickly Seattle would become Detroit or Cleveland if we lost Starbucks and/or Microsoft.
I could finally afford to buy a house. Maybe I’ll become your neighbor. Don’t worry though. I promise to take could care of the place.
Things I Wish I'd Written - The What If Game
Washington DC / Politics / Policy & Issues
Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black
April 25th, 2010 9:07 am ET
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we’ll envision black folks or other people of color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.
So let’s begin.
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.
Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: “He’s a piece of $hit and I told him to suck on my machine gun.” Because that’s what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.
Imagine that a prominent mainstream black political commentator had long employed an overt bigot as Executive Director of his organization, and that this bigot regularly participated in black separatist conferences, and once assaulted a white person while calling them by a racial slur. When that prominent black commentator and his sister — who also works for the organization — defended the bigot as a good guy who was misunderstood and “going through a tough time in his life” would anyone accept their excuse-making? Would that commentator still have a place on a mainstream network? Because that’s what happened in the real world, when Pat Buchanan employed as Executive Director of his group, America’s Cause, a blatant racist who did all these things, or at least their white equivalents: attending white separatist conferences and attacking a black woman while calling her the n-word.
Imagine that a black radio host were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of a white president is by “hating black people,” or that a prominent white person had only endorsed a white presidential candidate as an act of racial bonding, or blamed a white president for a fight on a school bus in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or said that he wouldn’t want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough—“living fossils” as he called them—“so we will never forget what these people stood for.” After all, these are things that Rush Limbaugh has said, about Barack Obama’s administration, Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois in which two black kids beat up a white kid, and about liberals, generally.
Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president’s policies, that he was ready to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.” This is, after all, what Pastor Stan Craig said recently at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina.
Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been “destroying” the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to “hang ‘em high.” And what would happen to any congressional representative who praised that commentator for “speaking common sense” and likened his hate talk to “American values?” After all, those are among the things said by radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage, predicting white revolution in the face of multiculturalism, or said by Savage about Muslims and liberals, respectively. And it was Congressman Culbertson, from Texas, who praised Savage in that way, despite his hateful rhetoric.
Imagine a black political commentator suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead. This is, after all, what Anne Coulter said about Tim McVeigh, when she noted that his only mistake was not blowing up the New York Times.
Imagine that a popular black liberal website posted comments about the daughter of a white president, calling her “typical redneck trash,” or a “whore” whose mother entertains her by “making monkey sounds.” After all that’s comparable to what conservatives posted about Malia Obama on freerepublic.com last year, when they referred to her as “ghetto trash.”
Imagine that black protesters at a large political rally were walking around with signs calling for the lynching of their congressional enemies. Because that’s what white conservatives did last year, in reference to Democratic party leaders in Congress.
In other words, imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color. How many whites viewing the anger, the hatred, the contempt for that white president would then wax eloquent about free speech, and the glories of democracy? And how many would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?
To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.
And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the mess we do, on a daily basis.
Game Over.
Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black
April 25th, 2010 9:07 am ET
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we’ll envision black folks or other people of color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.
So let’s begin.
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.
Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: “He’s a piece of $hit and I told him to suck on my machine gun.” Because that’s what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.
Imagine that a prominent mainstream black political commentator had long employed an overt bigot as Executive Director of his organization, and that this bigot regularly participated in black separatist conferences, and once assaulted a white person while calling them by a racial slur. When that prominent black commentator and his sister — who also works for the organization — defended the bigot as a good guy who was misunderstood and “going through a tough time in his life” would anyone accept their excuse-making? Would that commentator still have a place on a mainstream network? Because that’s what happened in the real world, when Pat Buchanan employed as Executive Director of his group, America’s Cause, a blatant racist who did all these things, or at least their white equivalents: attending white separatist conferences and attacking a black woman while calling her the n-word.
Imagine that a black radio host were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of a white president is by “hating black people,” or that a prominent white person had only endorsed a white presidential candidate as an act of racial bonding, or blamed a white president for a fight on a school bus in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or said that he wouldn’t want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough—“living fossils” as he called them—“so we will never forget what these people stood for.” After all, these are things that Rush Limbaugh has said, about Barack Obama’s administration, Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois in which two black kids beat up a white kid, and about liberals, generally.
Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president’s policies, that he was ready to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.” This is, after all, what Pastor Stan Craig said recently at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina.
Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been “destroying” the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to “hang ‘em high.” And what would happen to any congressional representative who praised that commentator for “speaking common sense” and likened his hate talk to “American values?” After all, those are among the things said by radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage, predicting white revolution in the face of multiculturalism, or said by Savage about Muslims and liberals, respectively. And it was Congressman Culbertson, from Texas, who praised Savage in that way, despite his hateful rhetoric.
Imagine a black political commentator suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead. This is, after all, what Anne Coulter said about Tim McVeigh, when she noted that his only mistake was not blowing up the New York Times.
Imagine that a popular black liberal website posted comments about the daughter of a white president, calling her “typical redneck trash,” or a “whore” whose mother entertains her by “making monkey sounds.” After all that’s comparable to what conservatives posted about Malia Obama on freerepublic.com last year, when they referred to her as “ghetto trash.”
Imagine that black protesters at a large political rally were walking around with signs calling for the lynching of their congressional enemies. Because that’s what white conservatives did last year, in reference to Democratic party leaders in Congress.
In other words, imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color. How many whites viewing the anger, the hatred, the contempt for that white president would then wax eloquent about free speech, and the glories of democracy? And how many would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?
To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.
And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the mess we do, on a daily basis.
Game Over.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Clip O' The Week - Spring Has Sprung
There are lots of reasons to be excited about today. After all it is National Beer Day. Who wouldn't be excited about that?
If only there was something else happening today that I could do while celebrating NBD. Here's this weeks clip.
Bonus Clip Cuz I'm Happy!
If only there was something else happening today that I could do while celebrating NBD. Here's this weeks clip.
Bonus Clip Cuz I'm Happy!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Things I Wish I'd Written - What's In A Name?
A League By Any Other Name: The Big National?
by Frank Deford
April 6, 2011
There was one professional conference, the All-American Football Conference, which lasted for a few years in the 1940s, and gave to the NFL the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers.
Now, "association" has pretty much gone out of style –– except for basketball. The NBA got stuck with association in 1949, when the National Basketball League merged with the Basketball Association of America. I think sports people have decided that association sounds too intellectual.
For some reason, all leagues want to be "National." The National League in baseball is even called the "senior circuit." National always comes first, then American. You would think patriots would go with American first, but it's just never that way. Go figure.
Likewise, there are entirely too many college conferences that call themselves Big: the Big 10; the Big 12; the Big East; the Big South; the Big West; and the Big Sky. Please. Five bigs too many.
You'd think college people could be more original. The Big National would be the most popular name in sports. Maybe I should register bignational.com in case somebody wises up. Then I'd make 'em pay me, big time.
Once people name their conference or their league, sometimes they goof up terribly when they need to name divisions, too.
Like the Big 10 — which, by the way, is up to 11 teams now, going on 12. It is going to call its six-team subgroups the Legends Division and the Leaders Division. That is so lame. Those are the worst names since the National Hockey League named both its conferences and divisions after people –– like the Prince of Wales Conference. Oh, please.
Most leagues just go by the compass when it comes to divisions: your basic East and West, then into your Northwests and Southeasts.
The dumbest was in the NCAA basketball tournament, which for many years had the East Regional, the West Regional, the Midwest Regional and the Mideast Regional, which sounded like it was being played on the Gaza Strip. Happily, they've changed it to the Southeast Regional.
Some leagues also borrow the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for division names. And "Central" is also popular. Smart. As coaches say: K-I-S-S, kiss: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Like, the Atlantic Coast Conference has two divisions: the Atlantic and the Coastal. Duh. My advice to the Big 10 is to get rid of Leaders and Legends and name its divisions the Midwest and the Central. Or the Little Six and the Small Six.
Frank Deford is a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
A Tradition Unlike Any Other
This is one of my favorite times of the year.
- The NCAA March Madness tourney is coming to a close.
- The folks at KJR 950 Sports Radio are beginning their annual Bigger Dance Tournament.
- Baseball Season has just started.
- And lastly the Masters starts on Thursday. It is a tradition unlike any other.
This year I thought I’d take a shot at sharing my top 5 favorite Masters. For those of you that know me you may be surprised at what came in at number 1 for me.
NO. 5 – 1996 The Shark is snake bitten
In 1987 Greg Norman lost the Masters to Larry Mize in a playoff. It was a sudden death playoff, and Mize shipped in from about 50 yards to win it. Fast forward to 1996 where The Shark begins Masters Sunday with a 6 stroke lead over Nick Faldo. Norman systematically fell apart for 18 holes, and Faldo reaped the rewards of his collapse. Golf is tough enough without the pressures of holding a lead on Sunday and this was mortifying to watch. I’d never wish this sort of thing on anyone.
No. 4 – 1997 “A win for the ages”
This was the phrase coined by Jim Nance as Tiger Woods putted in for par on 18. He won the tournament by 12 shots which was the largest margin in over 30 years. Colin Montgomery, Tiger’s playing partner on Saturday, said that he appreciated the way he drove the ball and chipped the ball, but did not appreciate his putting. Colin was making a joke at the time about how well Tiger played. He was 21 at the time.
No. 3 – 1986 “Maybe? Yes Sir!”
The first time I ever watched the Masters was in 1986. I was so sick I actually stayed home from church that day. I was treated to watching the Golden Bear become the oldest person to ever win the Masters. He was 46 at the time. He did not start the day in the lead but he over came Seve Ballasteros to win. Jack parred the 8th hole after hitting his drive into the trees. He Birdied 9, 10,and 11. Eagled 15, and topped it all off with another birdie on 17. I was hooked from that moment on.
No. 2 – 2005 Next time center the logo
DiMarcco vs. Tiger. The tournament went into sudden death and Tiger ended up winning but we will all remember this one for the impossible chip in on 16. The video is below and Vern’s call is perfect. I’ll let him tell the story.
No. 1 – Stupid and dumb, but HOLY CRAP WHAT A SHOT!
I’m not a big fan of Phil “tits” Mickelson. Most the time I root against him. Last year was one of those times. So you can imagine how happy I was when he started struggling last year on Sunday. There I sat all smug watching Lefty struggle with his driver. The contenders (KJ Choi, Anthony Kim, and Tiger) were surging. Phil started missing both the fairways and the rough somewhere around the 7th hole. On the Par 5 13 he put it into the trees. A normal, sane person would have punched out and chipped on to give himself a chance at par. Hell, his caddie Bones tried to talk him into doing just that. But he was having none of it. It was a defining moment that Tin Cup would have been proud of. From a pine needle laden lie, and from behind 2 trees he miraculously knocked it to 3 feet. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m guessing his adrenalin was running a bit strong because he missed the subsequent eagle putt but the birdie putt was a mere formality.
Now here's Vern to tell it how it is
Friday, April 1, 2011
Clip O' The Week -- Opening Day!
For Seattle Mariner fans today is opening day and King Felix is about to take the hill against the Oakland A's. But for the first time in my life this year will be different. Dave Niehaus passed away during the off season. It won't be the same without the voice of summer. When I was a kid, hearing Dave on the radio was magical. It signaled the beginning of end of the school year. The weather would begin to get warmer. Mike, Tim and I would all pitch in and buy a bunch of tennis balls and wiffle bats. We'd freshen up the asphalt painted on bases that had warn away by the winter's weather. And with the exuberant call of "My Oh My" coming through the radio speakers we knew that baseball was here.
Here's your clip of the week.
Things I Wish I'd Written - The Science Of A Bloody Mary
Cocktail Chemistry: Parsing The Bloody Mary
by Adam Cole
You have no idea what's going on in that glass.
You have no idea what's going on in that glass.
The bloody mary, the signature brunch cocktail, had a friend in Ernest Hemingway. The famous writer bragged in a letter to Bernard Peyton that he introduced the drink to Hong Kong, and further claimed that "it did more than any other single factor except perhaps the Japanese Army to precipitate the fall of that Crown Colony."
I don't know about that, but the bloody mary does seem to hold a special place on the menu. It at least appears to be a healthier option than most drinks (it's mostly tomato juice, right?), and it's often touted as a hangover remedy. So how do you make the perfect bloody mary?
Hemingway's recipe involved a lot of "tasting-as-you-go", and a long list of ingredients: vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, lime juice, celery salt, cayenne pepper (modern bartenders usually substitute Tabasco sauce) and black pepper.
"Each of those ingredients has tens of compounds, if not hundreds of compounds," Neil Da Costa, an analytic chemist working for International Flavors and Fragrances, tells Shots. "The bloody mary has been called the world's most complex cocktail."
He should know. Da Costa has used every trick in the chemist's book to analyze each ingredient, and the cocktail as whole. He presented his findings at a meeting of the American Chemical Society this week. Da Costas, an expert in food flavors, is chairman-elect of the group's agriculture and food chemistry division.
With gas and liquid chromatography, Da Costa isolated the wide variety of compounds that give the bloody mary its unique flavor. The drink covers much of the taste spectrum: sweet, salty, sour and umami — the savory taste of glutamic acid.
A visualization of the flavors in a typical bloody mary
A visualization of the flavors in a typical bloody mary
And, Da Costa says, the order of these sensations is appealing: first cool and refreshing, then spicy, and finally a sinus-clearing horseradish kick.
So what lessons can amateur bartenders glean from all this analysis? Make it fresh and make it cool, Da Costa says. Many of the ingredients are chemically unstable, so it's important to make your bloody mary from fresh ingredients and keep it iced to prevent deterioration.
Hemingway would agree. He jotted down at the bottom of his recipe, "Whole trick is to keep it very cold."
He went on to observe: "You can mix it so it will taste as though it had absolutely no alcohol of any kind in it and a glass of it will still have as much kick as a really good big martini."
So if you're aiming for that perfect bloody mary, splurge on the tomato juice, not the vodka. You might not even taste the cheap alcohol.
Neil presented his findings as part of the International Year of Chemistry a "worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry" organized by the UN and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
"This was done to try and get chemistry to the masses," Da Costa says. "Anything you eat or anything you do - everything involves chemistry."
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