Sick of your usual call drink? Try something new. In this series, we’re asking the city’s bartenders to name their current drinks of choice. Today’s call comes by way of Brian Miller, bartender at ...

What can be said about the Ramos Gin Fizz that hasn’t already been muttered hatefully under the breath of a busy bartender? The Ramos Gin Fizz is special for a number of reasons. Primarily, it sits ...

The Ramos Gin Fizz is the hardest cocktail to make in the game. If you’re ever in a job interview at a high-end cocktail bar, you better have this one on lock because there’s a pretty high probability ...

I think of the Ramos Gin Fizz as the Mount Everest of drinks. Not because it is extraordinarily difficult to make, or because it represents the pinnacle of cocktail achievement, but because of ...

A bartender from the Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt New Orleans shared a recipe for a Ramos Gin Fizz.

and they would just pass it down. We have our gin, a half ounce of lemon juice, a half ounce of lime juice, and ounce and a quarter of simple syrup. Then we're going to add a little bit of heavy cream ...

Fresh off a term as Governor of Louisiana, and a few years removed from the end of Prohibition, Senator Huey Long pulled off a publicity stunt of Dukakis proportions in July of 1935. He flew in ...

At 83 years of age, John Shelton Reed has authored or edited a whopping two dozen books. His most recent work, “The Ramos Gin Fizz,” was published this summer by LSU Press as part of their popular ...

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