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Subject: Re: What a Shame...Oprah too.
From: Spellbinder
Posted: Sat May 26. 2007, 20:14 UTC
Followup to: "Re: What a Shame...Oprah too."  by doneil  (Sat May 26. 2007, 19:15 UTC)
> > The bottomline is that the majority of the masses don't care about 
> > cocktails. They only want a good tasting one to catch a little buzz 
> > at a party/after a long day at work, etc. 
> 
> Ah, that is true until a good bartender gets the opportunity to show 
> a person what a good drink tastes like. I love making a perfect 
> mojito (yes, I actually like making mojito's behind the bar) and 
> watching peoples eye's light and say "that's the best mojito I've 
> ever had!". Then when they go elsewhere and have "drink master" David 
> Tutera or Bob "The Margarita King" make "one" and them these guys 
> look like pathetic hacks. They are only about self promotion, not 
> quality.

It's not really any different from the celebrity chefs that go on to show 
"quick and easy" recipes you can make at home.  Even worse, a few of the celeb 
chefs who've put their names onto frozen dinners.  Of course, none of the 
people looking to promote themselves would be able to go onto a show and make 
a common and classic recipe because everybody already knows how to make that, 
so instead they make up a way to bastardize the recipe and produce something 
that's passable (but only just passable) to the average person who knows 
little to nothing about cocktails.  There's too few experts (or even 
knowledgeable people) to question the quality or challenge the self-promoters, 
thus, nobody is ever the wiser.

As a side question, shouldn't it be the audiance (especially at home) that 
should be drinking just to watch The View?  Talk about a circus act...

-- 
Cody


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