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Episode 91: A Very Simple Pleasure

The Trip

English - May 26, 2020 21:20 - 31 minutes - ★★★★ - 309 ratings
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Along with twitterfights, long calls to the unemployment office, and heartfelt conversations with your new sourdough starters, alcohol seems to be a defining obsession of this pandemic. I’ll leave it to the rehab centers and 12 steppers to clean up the mess afterwards; this week, I just need a drink. But not just a box of wine or something, I want something escapist, evocative, alluring. I want a cocktail dammit, something with some class, and this week I’m taking the Trip to Angola, Japan and Austria to get it. That means tequila cucumber elixirs with Ioanna Morelli, in Hokkaido, Japan. That means a Sichuan Daiquiri with Alexa van Sickle in Vienna, and, to start it all off, a beachfront gin-and-hot-pepper drink in Luanda, Angola with Claudio Silva, the founder of Luanda Cocktail Week. 

Show notes:
Luanda Night Life (publication)
20 Things to Know Before You Go: Luanda by Claudio Silva
Luanda Cocktail Week
Gyu Bar Niseko
Early Bird Sapporo
The Sign Lounge Vienna
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Along with twitterfights, long calls to the unemployment office, and heartfelt conversations with your new sourdough starters, alcohol seems to be a defining obsession of this pandemic. I’ll leave it to the rehab centers and 12 steppers to clean up the mess afterwards; this week, I just need a drink. But not just a box of wine or something, I want something escapist, evocative, alluring. I want a cocktail dammit, something with some class, and this week I’m taking the Trip to Angola, Japan and Austria to get it. That means tequila cucumber elixirs with Ioanna Morelli, in Hokkaido, Japan. That means a Sichuan Daiquiri with Alexa van Sickle in Vienna, and, to start it all off, a beachfront gin-and-hot-pepper drink in Luanda, Angola with Claudio Silva, the founder of Luanda Cocktail Week. 


Show notes:

Luanda Night Life (publication)

20 Things to Know Before You Go: Luanda by Claudio Silva

Luanda Cocktail Week

Gyu Bar Niseko

Early Bird Sapporo

The Sign Lounge Vienna

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