Kayla and Taylor discuss the themes and major beats of Morgan Rogers’s 2021 novel Honey Girl. Topics include Millennials, radio shows, and how we feel So Old when we read about young people.
This week’s drink: Honey Rose Old Fashioned via Cocktail Contessa
INGREDIENTS:
0.75 oz honey-rose simple syrup
2 oz bourbon
2 dashes apple bitters
Garnish: long orange peel rolled into an orange rose, a few dried rose buds
INSTRUCTIONS:
In a mixing glass, combine rose-honey simple, bourbon and bitters. Add ice and stir until well chilled. Strain into a rocks glass with large cubes of ice. Garnish with the orange rose and rose buds.
For the Rose-Honey simple syrup:
1 tablespoon dried rose buds
1 cup water
3/4 cup honey
Brew the rose buds in boiling water for 8 minutes like you would a tea (I used my teapot). Strain 1/2 cup of the tea into a glass measuring cup. While still hot, add 3/4 cup honey and stir well to combine. Let cool completely and keep in the fridge. It will keep for a couple of weeks, and a little longer if you add a bit of vodka to it before storing it. You can drink the remaining tea on its own, or make some of it into a rose simple syrup by adding 1/2 cup sugar to it.
Current Reads and Recommendations:
Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses (podcast)
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
Article about millennial novels: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/17/what-makes-a-millennial-novel-olivia-sudjic
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Here is the beverage recipe for the upcoming episode if you want to drink along with us!
Grapefruit Sake Cocktail via I Heart Umami
INGREDIENTS:
3 oz Junmai sake (Nigori or Daiginjo or Ginjo Sake)
2.5 oz gin (pure, distilled)
3 oz grapefruit juice
⅛ tsp grated fresh ginger root
Tiny pinch ground nutmeg (optional)
4-5 medium size ice cubes (plus extra for serving)
Splash grapefruit sparkling water (chilled)
2 sprigs fresh rosemary (garnish, optional)
2 slices fresh grapefruit (garnish, optional)
INSTRUCTIONS:
In a shaker, add the sake, gin, grapefruit juice, ginger, a tiny dash of ground nutmeg powder, if using, and 4-5 medium size ice cubes. Shake 30-40 seconds.
Pour the cocktail through a strainer filter into two cocktail glasses.
Add a splash of grapefruit sparkling water. Garnish with rosemary sprigs and grapefruit slice, if using.
