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Subject: Re: Brilliantcocktails - Podcast
From: apetail
Posted: Thu Nov 23. 2006, 11:23 UTC
Followup to: "Brilliantcocktails - Podcast"  by Thinking Bartender  (Thu Nov 23. 2006, 01:01 UTC)
A thought which I have about the increase of bartender podcasts on the 
internet:

Could it be that bartenders want to be stars and as important as BBC tv-chefs 
but because mixing a few liquids is not as difficult and interresting as 
cooking they are doomed to dumb they're stuff somewhere in a silent corner of 
the web?

You could argue against cocktails not being difficult and interresting. But, 
just look in a bookshop and compare the amount of books about cocktails with 
the total amount of books on cooking. Even compared with books about other 
drinks like wine and beer the number of books about cocktails is small. 
Cocktails is just part of cooking and I think that it should be a part of a 
progamm about cooking instead of being the main item of a programm. What is it 
about those cocktail podcast mixology people thinking theye are important? Are 
there also as many podcasts with people displaying their knowledge about 
salad-technology, soup-ology or lasagna-constructions?

I haven't watched those brilliant podcasts but in general a lot of those 
podcast people use such exagerated terms like wrapping, marrying, texturizing, 
mellowing, etc trying to give the cocktail making a little bit of the glamour 
and interrestingness which can be found in tv-cooking-programms.

In other and more technical words. A lot of those cocktail shows (not only 
podcasts but also people doing a seminar or cocktail contest) are based on 
relatively a lot useless words, some precisions and very few definitions. 
http://www.college-de-france.fr/chaires/chaire10/page_herve/Conference_recente_fichiers/frame.htm


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