In the meantime, help yourself to a book and booze pairing. Bram Stoker's Dracula and a Bloody Mary, for example? It's a book you can really sink your teeth into.
Any other book/booze pairing suggestions?
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Books and Booze
The Mistress will try to pull herself together in the days to come to discuss the books of July/August in The 2016 Infomaniac Book Challenge.
In the meantime, help yourself to a book and booze pairing. Bram Stoker's Dracula and a Bloody Mary, for example? It's a book you can really sink your teeth into.
Any other book/booze pairing suggestions?
In the meantime, help yourself to a book and booze pairing. Bram Stoker's Dracula and a Bloody Mary, for example? It's a book you can really sink your teeth into.
Any other book/booze pairing suggestions?
Buried Alive: Janis Joplin and Southern Comfort.
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DeleteWilliam Blake, Complete Illuminated Books and Laudanum, lots ...
ReplyDeleteIllumination and libation.
DeleteSense and Sensibility and a boilermaker. Cause what the fuck, am I right Jane?
ReplyDeletei'll have what she's having.
DeletePEENEE: The boilermaker: not just for Charles Bukowski anymore.
DeleteNORMA: Bottoms up!
A Herrengedeck goes with any Bukowski.
DeletePros drunk it in one go with the little glass over the big one pouring right into the stream of the beer - classy ! Best together with a pack of HB or Eckstein.
MAGO: After reading that, I don’t think there’s any chance of The Mistress turning pro.
DeleteAlan Bennett "Writing Home" and a nice cup of tea..? Jx
ReplyDeleteJON: Perfect for elevenses.
DeleteThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck with any wine...I'll take a Riesling.
ReplyDeleteThe Bible by God & dictated by various with any wine.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway with a Cuba Libré (Rum, Coke, & Lime) or a Mojito.
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall with a Mai Tai.
The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall with, what else?, a Hurricane.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak with a Black (or White) Russian.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald with a Long Island Iced Tea or Cosmopolitan.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera with a Margarita or Tequila Sunrise.
Any James Bond book with a martini (shaken, not stirred).
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (book) with a Blue Hawaii.
From Here to Eternity (film) with Sex on the Beach.
Baking Bible by Mary Berry with Buttery Nipples (Equal parts Baileys Irish Cream & Butterscotch Schnapps).
Any IKEA furniture assembly instructions with a Screwdriver (one part vodka two parts orange juice).
Oog! I've got to watch the Bake Off tonight, and now the thought of buttery nipples is going to pop into my head whenever I see Mary Berry! Thanks Eros...
DeleteGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell with a Mint Julep.
ReplyDeleteEROS: You’re going to have one HELL of a hangover.
DeleteThese days all books need a pair of glasses.
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MISS SCARLET: These may be helpful.
DeleteBeer goggles!
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Exactly, Miss Scarlet.
DeleteThe Torah and a glass of Sabbath Wine.
ReplyDelete*places Kosher kiss on Mistress feet as is proper*
DAMIEN: Fill your Kiddush cup!
DeleteBiggles Flies Again (or any of the Biggles books, for that matter) - What else but an Aviation.
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