RAISE A GLASS
For me, 2020 involved making a pitcher of something alcoholic, cooking, eating, and repeating it all again. By January of this year, I suspected I was partaking in alcoholic libations a little too much, so I quit. (Still cooking and eating, though.) This week, my Garden & Gun drinks issue (August/September 2021) arrived. I drove eighteen miles east to get a huge fresh watermelon from a farmer I know, then I drove thirty-five miles in the other direction into Louisville to the “fancy” liquor store to buy cachaça (Drinks) and Plantation Stiggins’ Fancy Pineapple Rum (“In Good Spirits”). I happily dove headfirst off the wagon.
Pat Swetnam
