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Camper English

@alcademics.bsky.social

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Cocktail writer, author of The Ice Book (2023) and Doctors and Distillers (2022). Now also giving SF cocktail history tours. https://www.alcademics.com/alcademics-newsletter.html

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Bay Area Culinary Historians @baculinaryhistory.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: This presentation is coming up in just a week and a half. We hope you can join us.

Bay Area Culinary Historians @baculinaryhistory.bsky.social · Aug 19

BACH's 10/26/2025 presentation will be an online presentation by Pat Saperstein on "Lunching on the Lot: How the Golden Age Stars Ate at Hollywood Studios", how movie studios have been feeding their armies of stars and crew. www.eventbrite.com/e/1588498554...

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 14h

post like nobody’s reading

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 16h

CocktailSafe was down but now is up again.

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CocktailSafe.org: Dedicated to safety in cocktail ingredients and techniques.

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 22h

i thought my water heater was failing but turns out i just had a gas leak for a year, right underneath my apartment. so not only did i have colder showers, i paid for the extra gas that i was huffing

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

just had one of those 38 Geary bus rides where the bus was express yet it feels like it took a few weeks off my life

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

#gay

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

a thing about me is that i will never play a movie about a horse

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

making myself a cup of hot chocolate to complete the look

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

if it’s pouring i’m standing on the porch staring

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

Update: he is stoppable, he is going home to nap

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll be listening to this in 30 minutes, you can probably still sign up. I started reading this book in advance of the talk and so far so good.

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

went to laundromat, cut hair, returned library materials, walked 2 miles to office, sold something from craigslist and it’s only 10:30. people are saying he’s unstoppable

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

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Do You Even Know What Cinnamon Tastes Like? - Offrange

Most of our “cinnamon” imports actually come from the bark of the cassia tree — a cheaper product. What are we missing out on?

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

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A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by Rham Records

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Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

tramps like Us? I only see one tramp here, and his name is BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

no haven’t seen that one. so many interesting regional vermouths these days.

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

because it’s the blanc rather than dry, might add a drop of simple to it.

Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social · 2d

I had a drink with it at Stoa here in SF - a Martini with a couple dashes of Chartreuse Elixir Vegetal - pairs perfectly:
Hedge Maze
St. George Terroir Gin
Dolin Blanc Vermouth
Green Chartreuse