Shake, rattle and pour
As we head towards the dread Christmas, our house rocks to the regular shake, rattle and slosh of the Boston shaker. Son number two, Ludo, 18, is busy honing the skills he learned recently on a residential cocktail-making course at the European Bartender School (EBS) in London. He’s a chip off the old block, bless him, and will be an old soak like his dad before he knows it. And, yes, gap years have certainly changed since my day. I thought he was in London learning French.
In fact, joking apart, the EBS runs a great course and since Ludo is also a mad keen cook, he grasped the essentials of cocktail-making immediately, working out which spirit goes with which liqueur and mixer, just as he’s worked out which ingredients work well together when he’s cooking us supper.
Cocktails are all the rage and so easy to master. They put pizzazz into Christmas and New Year’s Eve and are a great way of using up
