by jocelyn_mitchell | May 6, 2022 | Drink
One of my favorite parts of Wednesday Night Cocktail Club is the creativity on display! Each week, the host tries to impress / one-up everyone else by coming up with a new theme and finding cocktail recipes and snacks to match. It’s a lot of fun hosting everyone, but...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Apr 21, 2022 | Drink
One of the fabulous cocktails we learned about through Lynnette Marrero and Ryan Chetiyawardana’s Mixology Masterclass is the pisco sour, a classic Peruvian cocktail. Our Wednesday Night Cocktail Club had a great time at COYA here in Doha with a private masterclass...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Mar 23, 2022 | Drink
Amos Rusie was a Major League Baseball pitcher from the 1890s nicknamed the “Hoosier Thunderbolt.” He is also a distant relative of my husband Nick (something like a great-great-great uncle on his mother’s side)! Amos Rusie is credited as the reason the pitching mound...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Feb 12, 2022 | Drink
It was Father’s Day, June 16, 2019, when I got an intriguing clue in the NYT Sunday crossword: “Cocktail of tequila and grapefruit soda.” I had no idea what the answer was, but it sounded really good! A bit of a google search revealed the Paloma, and I promptly went...
by jocelyn_mitchell | Jan 23, 2022 | Drink
By living and teaching abroad in Doha, Qatar, for fourteen years, our friends have become our family. So when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down our schools and workplaces in March 2020, our usual source of comfort and camaraderie was shut down too. Our tightly knit...
