My guest this week is Jarrett Dieterle with his new book “Give Me Liberty and Give Me A Drink – 65 Cocktails to Protest America’s Most Outlandish Alcohol Laws.”
Across this nation, in breweries, liquor stores, bars, and even our own homes, we’re being stripped of our most basic boozy rights. Thanks to Prohibition and its 100-year hangover, some of the most outdated, bizarre, and laughably loony laws still on the books today center around alcohol and how we drink it.
In New Mexico, $1 margaritas are illegal. In Utah, cocktails must be mixed behind a barrier called the “Zion curtain.” And forget about happy hour in Massachusetts—the state banned it in 1984. But we don’t have to stand down and dry up—it’s time to take to liquid protest. Created by the nation’s leading alcohol policy expert, Give Me Liberty and Give Me a Drink! combines the thirst-inducing pleasure of trivia with 65 recipes for classic and innovative cocktails.
So arm yourself with a mezcal-based One Pint, Two Pint, inspired by Vermont’s ban on beer pitchers, or The Boiling Point, a beer cocktail that is highly illegal in Virginia, and get ready to drink your way to a revolution on the rocks.
Jarrett Dieterle is a leading alcohol policy expert, the editor in chief of DrinksReform.org, a contributing drinks writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and the director of commercial freedom and a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, DC. A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Richmond, he has written about spirits, booze history, and questionable regulations for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, the New York Post, Forbes, Liquor.com, VinePair, SevenFifty Daily, and NPR’s James Beard Award–winning blog, The Salt. He is a native of Michigan and lives with his wife and Australian shepherd mix near Richmond, Virginia, where he never, ever has a boilermaker (thanks, Virginia government).
In the second half I’ll be talking to Chef Darrell “DAS” Smith. DAS learned most of his cooking skills from his mother. His love for food and the culinary arts began to further develop at the age of 19 while training at Atlanta Technical College, where he focused on American cuisine. Shortly after graduation, Chef Das landed a position in Detroit, Michigan where he taught youth how to find motivation and express themselves, using food as a creative outlet. His admiration for teaching and food prompted an uncalculated move to Los Angeles, CA where he worked to hone his craft and create a living for himself as a full-time chef.
Chef Das has prepared cuisine for Michelle Obama’s luncheon in 2014. He has been featured on the Food Network’s hit shows “Next Food Network Star” and “The Great Food Truck Race”. He has served as a recurring expert on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s hit series, “Home Made Simple” and published a cook book that focuses on the fundamentals of cooking titled “Now Look Who’s Cooking”. Most recently, Chef Das was the personal chef to entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Chef DAS recently launched Spice Sack product line a custom spice blend company designed to take the intimidation out of cooking.
Want to be a part of a cool new product? Visit the Kick Starter page and support Chef DAS and his creative “Spice Sack” products. Learn more about Spice Sack here!….
Tonight’s Virtual Bubbles Tasting
Worldly Bubbles for Holidays or Any Days
December 5, 2020 – With Good Life Guy
Facebook LIVE, 6:00 p.m. Central, Details/Downloads below
- Lamarca Prosecco – Italy
- Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut Cava – Spain
- Bouvet Rose Excvellence Brut – France
- Mumm Napa Brut Prestige – California
Find these bubbles at Jacob Liquor on North Rock Road or your local wine merchant. Buy them all or what you like, can’t find the exact producer? Buy a similar bottle and join the FUN!
Downloads:
Champagne & Sparkling Wine Overview
Great Value Bubbles Tasting Notes
