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Subject: Re: Easy Way to remember Drink Ingredients w/Acronyms
From: aging bacchus
Posted: Wed Dec 3. 2003, 19:19 UTC
Followup to: "Easy Way to remember Drink Ingredients w/Acronyms"  by papichulo  (Wed Dec 3. 2003, 14:42 UTC)
1. Until you have some tangible experience, learning recipes may seem like 
memorizing a foreign language or learning multiplication tables. Learning 
acronyms can be a handy way of memorizing drinks and I think you will have the 
best luck making up your own. Acronyms, for me at least, seem to "stick" best 
when they mean something to me.

2. As a side note, try to look for patterns while you are memorizing drinks - 
similarities among Seabreeze, Baybreeze, and Madras or Martini and Gibson or 
Manhattan and Rob Roy.

3. I have also had good luck memorizing everything from French verbs to drink 
recipes using flash cards - it may help you recognize patterns you might not 
see in a book. I have also been able to work with flash cards while driving or 
waiting in lines.

4. Lastly, most bartending schools give you one way to make the drinks, but 
certainly not the ONLY way to make drinks. For me to give you the "secrets" to 
my recipes might not help you learn what you need to to pass.


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