Blizzard Booze

What’s your favorite drink when it’s cold, snowing and you want to feel cozy?

I posed this question to friends on Facebook and via email all across the country. The answers ran the gamut from expected to exotic and everything in between including weather related, as in “Hey, I’m in the sunbelt, I don’t have that problem.”

Amidst the Sidecar, Hot Apple Pie, Hot Buttered Sorel (from my friend Jack at Sorel Liqueur), Manhattans, 25-year-old single malts, and a Cognac near a fireplace; I received some interesting comments –

My friend the blogger and foodie Mary Ellen Griffin, Her blog is here. Hmm, Port gives me heartburn but I love the imagery.

From my daughter and former partner Michelle (the “M” in AM Shapiro),  Atta girl, but ever since Diageo got its hands on Godiva, we no longer speak of it.

For you ex-Seagram folks, here’s a bunch from Mark Levine in Seattle, “ That’s a trip down Memory Lane (maybe Nightmare Lane).

My friend, Jonathan Alexandratos, a playwright whose skills I hope to emulate one day, had this to say. “ Jonathan, one of my favorite expressions, is “Alcohol – because no great story starts with a salad.”

Another spirits industry friend, Onute Miller wrote, I looked it up and the recipe is amazing, especially the high-octane part. Here is a link to an online recipe and a company that produces a packaged product.

My favorite – drumroll please – from a very good friend, “

Yes, you win. But, the prize is knowing that my readers and I will weather the storm with your drink, as well as some of the others.

Oh, and you Sunbelt folks… see what you’re missing?