DID SOMEBODY SAY NEW YORK?

 By Joe Ray

NEW YORK CITY

Time to toot our own horns!

Last Friday, Simon Says was mentioned in the New York Times 'Diner's Journal' section - our third NYT mention in less than a year! - read it here.

Next, my NYC food and drink centric story and photo set - "Small Wonders" - ran Sunday in The Boston Globe's Travel section.

A blurb...

Across the river, I walk into Fort Defiance, a new bar that’s a subway, bus, and world away from Manhattan in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood .

WHAM, WHAM, WHAM!!! Behind the bar, St. John Frizell, the owner, clubs a cloth bag of ice with a large wooden mallet to make a drink called the prescription julep, an 1857 recipe that blends cognac and rye whiskey, which are poured into a metal shaker cup and topped with a sprig of mint and a cherry. If it sounds a bit froufrou - like there should be a little umbrella shading the ice - instead, it looks perfect, almost serious, like something to pay attention to while you drink it.

Read the whole story here.