Margaret Heafield Hamilton (August 17, 1936 - )
Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She is credited with coining the term "software engineering". Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she became the founder and CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact (DBTF) for systems and software design. On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.
The Drink:
Crimson Bulleit Punch
2 parts Bulleit bourbon
2 parts cranberry pomegranate juice
1/2 part Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
2 parts Champagne
Drinkability: ?
Drunkability: ?
Taxic Diversity: ?
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: ?
Comments: (comments from the web: the ladies seem to have gone off the rails before they finished this cocktail. No notes recorded.)
From "Packs a Punch" themed meeting hosted by Irish Knockout.
NYC chapter of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails
Thursday, January 3, 2019
November 2018 - Virne Gilbert- Pomegranate Packs-a-Punch
Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert (August 29, 1913 – January 7, 1987)
Virne Gilbert was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. At 17-years-old, she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts against the New York Yankees on April 2, 1931. The first batter she faced was Babe Ruth, followed by Lou Gehrig, the deadliest hitting duo in baseball history. Mitchell struck them both out. “Girl Pitcher Fans Ruth and Gehrig,” read the headline in the next day’s sports page of the New York Times, beside a photograph of Mitchell in uniform. In an editorial, the paper added: “The prospect grows gloomier for misogynists.” Mitchell’s unusual baseball career, however, wasn’t over. In an era before televised games, when blacks as well as women were unofficially barred from major-league baseball, an ersatz troupe of traveling teams barnstormed the nation, mostly playing in towns that lacked professional squads. In 1937 she retired from baseball and went to work for her father’s optical business in Tennessee.
The Cocktail:
Pomegranate Packs-a-Punch
2 cups pomegranate juice
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup dark rum
1 bottle of blanc de blancs sparkling wine
2 pomegranates sliced into rounds
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: juicy
From "Knockout Punch!" hosted by Irish Knockout
Virne Gilbert was one of the first female pitchers in professional baseball history. At 17-years-old, she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts against the New York Yankees on April 2, 1931. The first batter she faced was Babe Ruth, followed by Lou Gehrig, the deadliest hitting duo in baseball history. Mitchell struck them both out. “Girl Pitcher Fans Ruth and Gehrig,” read the headline in the next day’s sports page of the New York Times, beside a photograph of Mitchell in uniform. In an editorial, the paper added: “The prospect grows gloomier for misogynists.” Mitchell’s unusual baseball career, however, wasn’t over. In an era before televised games, when blacks as well as women were unofficially barred from major-league baseball, an ersatz troupe of traveling teams barnstormed the nation, mostly playing in towns that lacked professional squads. In 1937 she retired from baseball and went to work for her father’s optical business in Tennessee.
The Cocktail:
Pomegranate Packs-a-Punch
2 cups pomegranate juice
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup orange juice
1/2 cup dark rum
1 bottle of blanc de blancs sparkling wine
2 pomegranates sliced into rounds
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: juicy
From "Knockout Punch!" hosted by Irish Knockout
November 2018 - Sadie Farrell - Irish Knockout
Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869)
Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869) was an alleged semi-folklorish American criminal, gang leader and river pirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat.She is believed to have been a vicious street mugger in New York's "Bloody" Fourth Ward. Upon encountering a lone traveler, she would headbutt like a charging goat a man in the stomach and her male accomplice would hit the victim with a slingshot and then rob him. Sadie, according to popular underworld lore, was engaged in a long-time feud with a tough, six-feet-tall female bouncer Gallus Mag, who finally bit off Sadie's ear in a bar fight, as Mag was known to do, albeit usually with male trouble-makers.
Folklore has it that, leaving the area in disgrace, she ventured to the waterfront area in West Side Manhattan. It was while wandering the dockyards in the spring of 1869 that she witnessed members of the Charlton Street Gang unsuccessfully attempting to board a small sloop anchored in mid-river. Watching the men being driven back across the river by a handful of the ship's crew, she offered her services to the men and became the gang's leader. Within days, she engineered the successful hijacking of a larger sloop and, with "the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead", she and her crew reputedly sailed up and down the Hudson and Harlem Rivers raiding small villages, robbing farm houses and riverside mansions, and occasionally kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. She was said to have made several male prisoners "walk the plank".
She and her men continued their activities for several months and stashed their cargo in several hiding spots until they could be gradually disposed of through fences and pawn shops along the Hudson and East Rivers. By the end of the summer, the farmers had begun resisting the raids, attacking landing parties with gunfire. The group abandoned the sloop and Sadie returned to the Fourth Ward, where she was now known as the "Queen of the Waterfront". She then claimed to have made a truce with Gallus Mag, who returned Sadie's ear. Mag had displayed it in a pickled jar in the bar. Sadie kept the ear in a locket and wore it around her neck for the rest of her life.
The Cocktail:
Irish Knockout
1/2 oz orange liqueur
1 oz white tequila
1/2 oz Irish cream
(layer into shot)
Drinkability: 0
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4.5
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments - Maybe as a shot? It's layered, but if you stir it up you can at least sip on it. Tastes kind of like a chocolate orange
From "Knockout Punch!" hosted by Irish Knockout
Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869) was an alleged semi-folklorish American criminal, gang leader and river pirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat.She is believed to have been a vicious street mugger in New York's "Bloody" Fourth Ward. Upon encountering a lone traveler, she would headbutt like a charging goat a man in the stomach and her male accomplice would hit the victim with a slingshot and then rob him. Sadie, according to popular underworld lore, was engaged in a long-time feud with a tough, six-feet-tall female bouncer Gallus Mag, who finally bit off Sadie's ear in a bar fight, as Mag was known to do, albeit usually with male trouble-makers.
Folklore has it that, leaving the area in disgrace, she ventured to the waterfront area in West Side Manhattan. It was while wandering the dockyards in the spring of 1869 that she witnessed members of the Charlton Street Gang unsuccessfully attempting to board a small sloop anchored in mid-river. Watching the men being driven back across the river by a handful of the ship's crew, she offered her services to the men and became the gang's leader. Within days, she engineered the successful hijacking of a larger sloop and, with "the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead", she and her crew reputedly sailed up and down the Hudson and Harlem Rivers raiding small villages, robbing farm houses and riverside mansions, and occasionally kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. She was said to have made several male prisoners "walk the plank".
She and her men continued their activities for several months and stashed their cargo in several hiding spots until they could be gradually disposed of through fences and pawn shops along the Hudson and East Rivers. By the end of the summer, the farmers had begun resisting the raids, attacking landing parties with gunfire. The group abandoned the sloop and Sadie returned to the Fourth Ward, where she was now known as the "Queen of the Waterfront". She then claimed to have made a truce with Gallus Mag, who returned Sadie's ear. Mag had displayed it in a pickled jar in the bar. Sadie kept the ear in a locket and wore it around her neck for the rest of her life.
The Cocktail:
Irish Knockout
1/2 oz orange liqueur
1 oz white tequila
1/2 oz Irish cream
(layer into shot)
Drinkability: 0
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4.5
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments - Maybe as a shot? It's layered, but if you stir it up you can at least sip on it. Tastes kind of like a chocolate orange
From "Knockout Punch!" hosted by Irish Knockout
November 2018 - Sharice Davids - Whiskey Punch
Sharice Davids (May 22, 1980 - )
Sharice Davids is an American attorney and politician from the state of Kansas. Davids is a member of the Ho-Chunk nation. Her maternal grandfather, Fredrick J. Davids, a 30-year Army veteran, was born into the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans, in Oneida, Wisconsin. Sharice was raised by Fredrick's daughter, Crystal Herriage, a single mother who served in the U.S. Army.
Davids began fighting mixed martial arts as an amateur in 2006, and went professional in 2013. She had a 5–1 win–loss record as an amateur and a 1–1 record as a professional. She tried out for The Ultimate Fighter but did not make it onto the show, allowing her to shift her focus away from MMA.
Davids began her legal career in 2010. She later directed community and economic development for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and opened her own business, Hoka Coffee. In 2016, she worked as a White House Fellow in the Department of Transportation during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
In the 2018 elections, Davids ran for the United States House of Representatives in Kansas's 3rd congressional district. She defeated Brent Welder, who had been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, by a margin of 37% to 34% in the August primary election.[8] Davids defeated incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder in the November 6, 2018, general election. This made her the first openly gay Native American in Congress, the first openly LGBTQ member of the Kansas congressional delegation, the first openly gay person representing Kansas on the federal level. Along with Deb Haaland, she was also one of the first Native American women in Congress.
The Cocktail:
Whiskey Punch
1/4 cup honey syrup
4 cups lemonade
3 cups whiskey
4 cups club soda
(makes 12 drinks)
Drinkability: 5
Drunkabiltiy: 3
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: - basically a cold hot toddy
From "Knockout Punch" hosted by Irish Knockout
Sharice Davids is an American attorney and politician from the state of Kansas. Davids is a member of the Ho-Chunk nation. Her maternal grandfather, Fredrick J. Davids, a 30-year Army veteran, was born into the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans, in Oneida, Wisconsin. Sharice was raised by Fredrick's daughter, Crystal Herriage, a single mother who served in the U.S. Army.
Davids began fighting mixed martial arts as an amateur in 2006, and went professional in 2013. She had a 5–1 win–loss record as an amateur and a 1–1 record as a professional. She tried out for The Ultimate Fighter but did not make it onto the show, allowing her to shift her focus away from MMA.
Davids began her legal career in 2010. She later directed community and economic development for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and opened her own business, Hoka Coffee. In 2016, she worked as a White House Fellow in the Department of Transportation during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations.
In the 2018 elections, Davids ran for the United States House of Representatives in Kansas's 3rd congressional district. She defeated Brent Welder, who had been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, by a margin of 37% to 34% in the August primary election.[8] Davids defeated incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder in the November 6, 2018, general election. This made her the first openly gay Native American in Congress, the first openly LGBTQ member of the Kansas congressional delegation, the first openly gay person representing Kansas on the federal level. Along with Deb Haaland, she was also one of the first Native American women in Congress.
The Cocktail:
Whiskey Punch
1/4 cup honey syrup
4 cups lemonade
3 cups whiskey
4 cups club soda
(makes 12 drinks)
Drinkability: 5
Drunkabiltiy: 3
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: - basically a cold hot toddy
From "Knockout Punch" hosted by Irish Knockout
October, 2018 - Ruther Bader Ginsberg - Prickly Pear Cocktail
Ruth Bader Ginsberg (March 15, 1933 - )
Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her lass. She attended Harvard Law School for two years before transferring to Columbia Law School to join her husband, who had been hired by a prestigious law firm in New York City. She was elected to the law reviews of both schools and graduated tied for first in her class at Columbia in 1959.
After clerking for U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri (1959-61), she taught at Rutgers University Law School (63-72) and at Columbia (72-80), where she became the school's first female tenured professor. During the 1970s she also served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court. She won five of those cases and thereby helped establish the unconstitutionality of unequal treatment of men and women.
She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White; she was easily confirmed by the Senate (96-3).
The Cocktail:
Prickly Pear
1/2 pear
.5 Tbsp honey
1/4 lime, juiced
1.5 oz bourbon
3 oz chilled ginger ale
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5+
Comments: We should all watch the movie (added later)
From "The Supremes (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University in 1954, finishing first in her lass. She attended Harvard Law School for two years before transferring to Columbia Law School to join her husband, who had been hired by a prestigious law firm in New York City. She was elected to the law reviews of both schools and graduated tied for first in her class at Columbia in 1959.
After clerking for U.S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmieri (1959-61), she taught at Rutgers University Law School (63-72) and at Columbia (72-80), where she became the school's first female tenured professor. During the 1970s she also served as the director of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she argued six landmark cases on gender equality before the Supreme Court. She won five of those cases and thereby helped establish the unconstitutionality of unequal treatment of men and women.
She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton to fill the seat vacated by Justice Byron White; she was easily confirmed by the Senate (96-3).
The Cocktail:
Prickly Pear
1/2 pear
.5 Tbsp honey
1/4 lime, juiced
1.5 oz bourbon
3 oz chilled ginger ale
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5+
Comments: We should all watch the movie (added later)
From "The Supremes (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
October 2018 - Sonia Sotomayor - Agave Ginger 'Rita
Sonia Sotomayor (June 25, 1954 - )
Sonia Sotomayor made history on August 6, 2009, when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
Sotomayor, the daughter of Puerto Rican-born parents, grew up in New York City. Her father died when she was 9 years old. After earning a bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1976, Sotomayor went to Yale Law School. There, she was an editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal before earning a law degree in 1979.
From 1979-1984, Sotomayor was an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office. She then moved to the private sector, where she litigated international commercial matters at a prominent law firm. She rose to become a partner in the firm. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. She served in that position until 1998. From 1998-2009, Sotomayor served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. she was appointed to that position by President Bill Clinton. In addition to her positions on the bench, Sotomayor also taught at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law.
The Cocktail:
Agave Ginger 'Rita
1 oz tequila
1 oz lime juice
3/4 oz ginger simple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 2.5
Priority for Conservation: 5+
Comments: Best if you make your own ginger simple syrup
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Sonia Sotomayor made history on August 6, 2009, when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
Sotomayor, the daughter of Puerto Rican-born parents, grew up in New York City. Her father died when she was 9 years old. After earning a bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 1976, Sotomayor went to Yale Law School. There, she was an editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal before earning a law degree in 1979.
From 1979-1984, Sotomayor was an assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office. She then moved to the private sector, where she litigated international commercial matters at a prominent law firm. She rose to become a partner in the firm. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. She served in that position until 1998. From 1998-2009, Sotomayor served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. she was appointed to that position by President Bill Clinton. In addition to her positions on the bench, Sotomayor also taught at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law.
The Cocktail:
Agave Ginger 'Rita
1 oz tequila
1 oz lime juice
3/4 oz ginger simple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 2.5
Priority for Conservation: 5+
Comments: Best if you make your own ginger simple syrup
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
October 2018 - Sandra Day O'Connor - Villar Perosa
Sandra Day O'Connor (March 26, 1930 - )
Sandra Day grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. She received undergraduate (1950) and law (1952) degrees from Stanford University. Upon her graduation she married a classmate, John Jay O'Connor III. Unable to find employment in a law firm because she was a woman - despite her academic achievements, one firm offered her a job as a secretary - she became a deputy district attorney in San Mateo county, California. After a brief tenure, she and her husband, a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, moved to Germany, where she served as a civil attorney for the army (1954-57).
Upon her return to the United States, O'Connor pursued private practice in Maryville, Arizona, becoming an assistant attorney general for the state (65-69). In 1969 she was elected as a Republican to the Arizona Senate (69-74), rising to the position. She later was elected a Superior Court judge in Maricopa county, a post she hed from 1975 - 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona court of Appeals in Phoenix. In July 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by the retirement of Justie Potter Stewart. Described by Reagan as a "person for all seasons," O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and was sworn in as the first female justice on September 25, 1981.
In 2006 O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court and was replaced by Samuel Alito. She was the author of several books, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Cocktail:
Villar Perosa
1 oz gin
.5 oz elderflower liquer
1 oz grapefruit juice
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: FR abstains due to grapefruit - the others were not as enthusiastic
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Sandra Day grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. She received undergraduate (1950) and law (1952) degrees from Stanford University. Upon her graduation she married a classmate, John Jay O'Connor III. Unable to find employment in a law firm because she was a woman - despite her academic achievements, one firm offered her a job as a secretary - she became a deputy district attorney in San Mateo county, California. After a brief tenure, she and her husband, a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps, moved to Germany, where she served as a civil attorney for the army (1954-57).
Upon her return to the United States, O'Connor pursued private practice in Maryville, Arizona, becoming an assistant attorney general for the state (65-69). In 1969 she was elected as a Republican to the Arizona Senate (69-74), rising to the position. She later was elected a Superior Court judge in Maricopa county, a post she hed from 1975 - 1979, when she was appointed to the Arizona court of Appeals in Phoenix. In July 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by the retirement of Justie Potter Stewart. Described by Reagan as a "person for all seasons," O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and was sworn in as the first female justice on September 25, 1981.
In 2006 O'Connor retired from the Supreme Court and was replaced by Samuel Alito. She was the author of several books, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Cocktail:
Villar Perosa
1 oz gin
.5 oz elderflower liquer
1 oz grapefruit juice
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 3
Comments: FR abstains due to grapefruit - the others were not as enthusiastic
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
October 2018 - Elana Kagan - Bourbon Cider
Elana Kagan - (April 20, 1960 - )
Kagan, the daughter of Robert Kagan, a lawyer, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher, was raised in New York City. She received a B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1981 and then studied on a fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she received an M.Phil. in 1983. Afterward, she attended Harvard Law School, where she was awarded a J.D. in 1986
Kagan spent a few years in private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming a law professor at the University of Chicago (where the future U.S. president Barack Obama was taught). Plucked out of academia by Pres. Bill Clinton, she served as associate White House counsel (1995-96) and then as deputy assistant (97-99) to Clinton on his Domestic Policy Counsel. In 1999 Clinton appointed Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled no hearings on her nomination. Future chief justice of the United States John G. Roberts was subsequently nominated to the post after George W. Bush became president.
Thereafter, she returned to academia at Harvard Law School, where she taught administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure and in 2003 was appointed dean overseeing fund-raising, improving student life, and developing a reputation as a pragmatist able to reduce tension among Harvard's notoriously fractious law faculty. In 2009 she was appointed by Obama to serve as the U.S. solicitor general; she was confirmed (61-31) by the U.S. Senate on march 19, becoming the first woman to occupy the post.
On May 10, 2010, Kagan was nominated by Obama to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives - she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society - some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court's liberal minority, though she was a passionate advocate of civil rights, including gay rights. Kagan was confirmed (63-37) by the Senate in August 2010.
The Cocktail:
Bourbon Cider
2 oz chilled apple cider
2 oz bourbon
2 oz chilled ginger beer
Drinkability:4
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: BM dissented due to not liking ginger beer
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Kagan, the daughter of Robert Kagan, a lawyer, and Gloria Gittelman Kagan, an elementary school teacher, was raised in New York City. She received a B.A. in history from Princeton University in 1981 and then studied on a fellowship at the University of Oxford, where she received an M.Phil. in 1983. Afterward, she attended Harvard Law School, where she was awarded a J.D. in 1986
Kagan spent a few years in private practice in Washington, D.C., before becoming a law professor at the University of Chicago (where the future U.S. president Barack Obama was taught). Plucked out of academia by Pres. Bill Clinton, she served as associate White House counsel (1995-96) and then as deputy assistant (97-99) to Clinton on his Domestic Policy Counsel. In 1999 Clinton appointed Kagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled no hearings on her nomination. Future chief justice of the United States John G. Roberts was subsequently nominated to the post after George W. Bush became president.
Thereafter, she returned to academia at Harvard Law School, where she taught administrative law, constitutional law, and civil procedure and in 2003 was appointed dean overseeing fund-raising, improving student life, and developing a reputation as a pragmatist able to reduce tension among Harvard's notoriously fractious law faculty. In 2009 she was appointed by Obama to serve as the U.S. solicitor general; she was confirmed (61-31) by the U.S. Senate on march 19, becoming the first woman to occupy the post.
On May 10, 2010, Kagan was nominated by Obama to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives - she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society - some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court's liberal minority, though she was a passionate advocate of civil rights, including gay rights. Kagan was confirmed (63-37) by the Senate in August 2010.
The Cocktail:
Bourbon Cider
2 oz chilled apple cider
2 oz bourbon
2 oz chilled ginger beer
Drinkability:4
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: BM dissented due to not liking ginger beer
From "The Supremes" (Women of the Supreme Court) hosted by MPF
Thursday, September 13, 2018
September, 2018 - Margaret Murie - Maple Smash
Margaret Thomas Murie (1902-2003)
Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Drink:
Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The Drink:
Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Alice Eastwood - A Cure for What Ails You
Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)
Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist. The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names. She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor.
The Drink:
A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice
Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4
Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist. The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names. She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor.
The Drink:
A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice
Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4
Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Ellen Richards - Mead-Hattan
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion
The Drink
Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion
The Drink
Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters
Drinkability: 2
Drunkability: 5
Accessibility: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking.
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker
September, 2018 - Florence Baily - Bramble Variation
Florence Augusta Merriam Baily (1863 – 1948)
Born in Locust Grove, NY, grew to became not only an ornithologist,
and one of America’s first activists for the protection of birds, but also
published the first bird field guide, Birds
Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890.
When she first started her study, the standards were based on
collections of skins; but she wanted to study the living birds in the field.
After college, she moved to Washington and helped organize the Audobon Society
of D.C. in 1897, and began to teach classes on birds the following year. Because of her activist work, she was also
instrumental in the passing of the Lacey Act of 1900 that banned illegally
traded wildlife to be sold across state lines. After marrying she would do
extensive field work with her husband in the American West, and documented her
studies in several books, including The
Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. In 1908, a subspecies of mountain
chickadee was named in her honor; and in 1992, a mountain the southern Oregon
Cascade Range was named in honor of both her and her husband by the Oregon
Geographic Names Board.
The Drink
Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party."
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker
The Drink
Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party."
From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
June, 2018 - Robyn Smith - The Belmont Jewel
Robyn Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her biological father deserted her
and her 17 year old mother at her birth. Melody's mother was declared mentally
unstable and Melody was placed in a foster home. She was adopted and renamed
Caroline Smith. Later, after a grueling court battle, she was returned to her birth
mother. When her mother's mental illness reappeared, she was placed back in the
care of her adoptive family. She became a jockey in 1969, winning the Paumonok
Handicap at Aqueduct in 1973 riding North Sea. She became the first woman to
win a major race in the USA. Despite the difficulty she had getting respect, an
agent and mounts, by '72 she was the top American-born jockey--of either
gender—at Aqueduct Racetrack, where her winning percentage that year was
second only to Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero's. On Jan. 1, 1973, at Santa
Anita, Smith was preparing for her first mount of the year when a friend
introduced her to Fred Astaire, 46 years her senior. Astaire asked whether he
should put money on her horse, Exciting Devorcee, and Smith assured him it was
a bad idea. He paid no heed, and when the horse beat Willie Shoemaker's mount
by a nose, Smith had won her first race at Santa Anita, Astaire had won his wager
on a long shot, and the seeds of a great romance had been planted. "I used to kid
him and say, 'Oh, you fell in love with me when I won that race,'" says Robyn. In
'80 she became Robyn Smith Astaire, and within four months she had left the
horse racing circuit to spend more time with her new husband and because Fred
was concerned for her safety. She remained married to Astaire until his death in
1987. Although she has tenaciously, and at times controversially, tried to control
the use of her husband's image--her efforts helped lead to the passage of a
California law limiting the use of deceased celebrities' likenesses--she still needed
to satisfy her own competitive urges. "I didn't know what I was going to do with
the rest of my life because I'd always been active," says Robyn. "I'm not one to sit
home and eat potato chips and watch soap operas." After getting career
counseling, she decided to become a helicopter pilot, and flying became her new
passion. She started in choppers, worked her way up to jets and now works as a
corporate pilot.
The Drink
The Belmont Jewel - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes since 2011
1.5 oz bourbon
2 oz lemonade
1 oz pomegranate juice
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Accessbility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: We understand why they changed it. This is much easier to batch for a large crowd. The crowds at Belmont are supposed to be terrible.
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
The Drink
The Belmont Jewel - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes since 2011
1.5 oz bourbon
2 oz lemonade
1 oz pomegranate juice
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Accessbility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments: We understand why they changed it. This is much easier to batch for a large crowd. The crowds at Belmont are supposed to be terrible.
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
June, 2018 - Julieann Louise Krone - White Carnation
Julieann Louise "Julie" Krone (born July 24, 1963), is a retired American jockey. In
1993, she became the first (and so far only) female jockey to win a Triple Crown
race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. In 2000, she
became the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of
Fame, and in 2003 became the first female jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race.
Because of her success in the face of severe injuries sustained while racing, Krone
was named by USA Today as one of the 10 Toughest Athletes and was honored with
the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award by the Women's Sports Foundation. In October
2013 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
She has also been honored by induction into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She made
her debut as a jockey on Jan. 30, 1981, at Tampa Bay Downs in Florida, on a horse
named Tiny Star. She won her first race on Feb. 12, 1981, also at Tampa Bay Downs,
aboard Lord Farkle. Within a few years her success made her a well-known racing
personality. Krone was the only woman to win riding championships at Belmont
Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands and Atlantic City Race
Course. She would go on to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the issue of
May 22, 1989, one of only eight jockeys so recognized (only one other was a
woman, Robyn Smith). In 1993 she received an ESPY Award as Female Athlete of
the Year. Krone retired for the first time on April 18, 1999 and embarked upon a
broadcasting career. She then came out of retirement in November 2002. After a
good start to the 2003 season, she fractured two bones in her lower back and spent
the next four months recovering. She returned to lead the 2003 Del Mar jockeys in
purse earnings, then went on to become the first woman jockey to win a Breeders'
Cup race when she rode Halfbridled to victory in the 2003 Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Fillies at Santa Anita. On December 12, 2003, just weeks after her Breeders' Cup
win, she broke several ribs and suffered severe muscle tears in a fall. Though not
fully recovered from her injuries, Krone attempted to come back on February 14,
2004, at Santa Anita Park, but failed to win in three races. She did not ride again; on
July 8 of that year, she made a statement in which she did not officially retire, but
strongly hinted that she would never race again.
The Drink
White Carnation - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes until 1997
2 oz orange juice
2 oz vodka
.5 oz peach schnapps
one can soda
splash of cream
Drinkability: 1
Drunkability: 2
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 0
Comments: Fizzy milk. Odd. Bandit Queen likes it.
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
The Drink
White Carnation - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes until 1997
2 oz orange juice
2 oz vodka
.5 oz peach schnapps
one can soda
splash of cream
Drinkability: 1
Drunkability: 2
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 0
Comments: Fizzy milk. Odd. Bandit Queen likes it.
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
June, 2018 - Anna Rose Napravnik - The Belmont Breeze
Anna Rose "Rosie" Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) began her career in 2005 at Pimlico and has been regularly ranked
among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won. She initially rode under the name "A.R.
Napravnik" to conceal her gender. She acknowledges the struggles for equality that women riders in earlier generations had
to face were greater than her own, but notes that women jockeys still "fight a battle.“ In her early career, she simply tried to
"blend in" with the male riders, but nonetheless encountered some owners and trainers who refused to hire a female
jockey. She later said, "I was very conscious when I raced against their horses—and when I beat them.“ Napravnik has
encountered harassment from male jockeys on the track when other riders would deliberately bump her or pen in her horse
from all sides. In a 2013 interview with 60 Minutes, Napravnik said that she has heard hecklers at the track yell at her to "go
home and have a baby," or "go home and stay in the kitchen.“ In 2011, she won the Louisiana Derby for her first time, and
was the first female winner, and was ninth in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, the sixth woman to ride in that race. In 2012, she
broke the total wins and earnings record for a woman jockey previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the
first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, riding Believe You Can, winning the race for a second time in 2014 on
Untapable. She then rode in the Belmont Stakes for the first time, finishing fifth aboard Five Sixteen. Later that year, she
won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile aboard Shanghai Bobby, becoming only the second woman jockey to win a Breeder's Cup
race. She is the first to win more than one, also winning the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff on Untapable. Napravnik's fifthplace
finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and third in the 2013 Preakness Stakes on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman
jockey in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have ridden in all three Triple Crown races. She
is also the first to have run in all three Triple Crown races in the same year, doing so in 2013 and 2014. After her win in the
2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Napravnik announced she was seven weeks pregnant and taking a "retirement" of "indefinite"
duration from race riding following the 2014 Breeders' Cup. She continues to assist her husband in training race horses,
including 2017 Kentucky Derby contender Girvin.
The Drink:
The Belmont Breeze - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes 1997-2010
1.5 oz bourbon
.5 oz dry sherry
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple syrup
splash of orange juice
splash of cranberry juice
5 mint leaves
Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 3.5
Accessibilty: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments:
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
The Drink:
The Belmont Breeze - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes 1997-2010
1.5 oz bourbon
.5 oz dry sherry
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple syrup
splash of orange juice
splash of cranberry juice
5 mint leaves
Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 3.5
Accessibilty: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments:
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
June, 2018 - Patty Cooksey - Black-Eyed Susan
Patricia Cooksey (born February 25, 1958 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American horse racing jockey. She
won her first race with Turf Advisor at Waterford Park (now Mountaineer Park) in 1979. A four-time
Turfway Park leading rider, Cooksey has won 2,137 wins since beginning her career in 1979, and she was
the all-time leading female jockey by number of victories before Julie Krone overtook her. In 1985 she
became the first female jockey to ride in the Preakness Stakes, finishing 6th aboard Tajawa. In 2004, she
became the first ever female jockey to be voted the NYRA's Mike Venezia Memorial Award, an honor
given annually to a jockey who exemplifies extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship. Cooksey now
resides in Georgetown, Kentucky. She is retired from racing and currently works for the Kentucky Racing
Commission. In 2006, she was a horse-back riding reporter for ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Breeders'
Cup.
The Drink
Black-Eyed Susan (official cocktail of the Preakness Stakes since 1973)
1 oz bourbon
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
2 oz orange juice
2 oz sour mix
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3.5
Comments: "peachy!"
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
The Drink
Black-Eyed Susan (official cocktail of the Preakness Stakes since 1973)
1 oz bourbon
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
2 oz orange juice
2 oz sour mix
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3.5
Comments: "peachy!"
From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
June, 2018 - Diane Crump - Mint Julep
Diane Crump was born in 1948 in Milford, Connecticut. Her family moved to Oldsmar, Florida, and she began taking riding
lessons when she was 13. On February 7, 1969, Crump became the first woman to compete as a professional jockey in the
United States. She rode a horse named Bridle 'n Bit at Hialeah Park Race Track. There was so much hostility to a woman
riding in a horse race that she needed a police escort to get to the track. Crump ultimately finished 9th in the 12-horse
race and returned to cheers of support. Two weeks later, Crump rode her first winning race. She said, “The crowd was just
swarming all over me. They were crazy, up in arms. . .The hecklers were yelling: 'Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner.'
That was the mentality at the time. They thought I was going to be the downfall of the whole sport, which is such a
medieval thought. I was like: 'Come on people, this is the 1960s!‘” The previous year, two women had been forced out of
horse races they had entered after male jockeys threw rocks at the trailers used as locker rooms by the women and
threatened a boycott. The situation changed at Hialeah because the track officials threatened sanctions against the male
jockeys. In 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump won the first race on the
underdcard that day, and then on a horse name Fathom, came in 15th in a 17-horse field in the Derby. By the time she
ended her racing career in 1985, she had ridden to 235 wins. In a race in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s, she realized the
male jockey behind her was holding onto her saddle, basically getting a free ride during the race. She began to hit him
with her stick but he eventually pulled away from her and won the race. Crump retired for a time in 1985 and beginning in
1991 worked as a trainer for a small stable of horses at the Middleburg Training Center in Virginia. She resumed race
riding in 1992 and rode races through 1998. She now runs an equine sales business.
The Drink:
Mint Julep (official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby since 1938)
2oz bourbon
1oz simple syrup
Mint
Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 4.5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: Cheers to Dinae Crump! First woman to compete as a professional jockey in the U.S.
From "Female Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
The Drink:
Mint Julep (official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby since 1938)
2oz bourbon
1oz simple syrup
Mint
Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 4.5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 2
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: Cheers to Dinae Crump! First woman to compete as a professional jockey in the U.S.
From "Female Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
March, 2017 - Moms Mabley - Kir Royale 38
Loretta Mary Aiken (Jackie "Moms" Mabley) - March 19, 1894 - May 23, 1975)
A comedy pioneer credited with being the first female standup comedian. She was born in Brevard, North Carolina and was one of a family of 16 children. Her father owned and operated several successful businesses, while her mother kept house and took in boarders. While working as a volunteer fireman in 1909, her father died when a fire engine exploded. In 1910, after her mother took over their primary business, a general store, her mother was killed after being run over by a truck while returning home from church. By age 14, Loretta had been rapced twice (at age 11, by an elderly black man, and at age 13, by a white sheriff) and had two children who she was forced to give up for adoption. At the encouragement of her grandmother, Loretta ran away to Cleveland, Ohio, joining a traveling vaudeville-style minstrel show called Butterbeans and Susie, where she sang and entertained. She developed an onstage persona as an old woman with a frumpy housedress, funny hat, and toothless gums, years before she was old. It was an homage to her grandmother. In character, she was able to be edgy with her routine covering racism and sexual innuendo through double entendres without offending. Her "bit" was to pretend to be a dirty old lady, lusting after younger men. She came out as a lesbian at the age of twenty-seven, becoming one of the first openly gay comedians. During the 1920s and 1930s she appeared in androgynous clothing (as she did in the film version of The Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson) and recorded several of her early "lesbian stand-up" routines. It wasn't until the 1960s that Mabley was "discovered" by white audiences, even though she had been performing for several decades at that point. Loretta Aiken took her stage name, Jackie Mabley, from an early boyfriend, commenting to Ebony in a 1970s interview that he had taken so much from her, it was the least she could do to take his name. Later she became known as "Moms" because she was indeed a "Mom" to many other comedians on the circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the subject of Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, an HBO documentary film in 2013.
The Drink
Kir Royale 38
1 tsp cognac
1 tsp grand marnier
6-8oz champagne
1/2 orange slice for garnish
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: Ratings are a little fuzzy - girls have gotten pretty hilarious themselves.
From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster
A comedy pioneer credited with being the first female standup comedian. She was born in Brevard, North Carolina and was one of a family of 16 children. Her father owned and operated several successful businesses, while her mother kept house and took in boarders. While working as a volunteer fireman in 1909, her father died when a fire engine exploded. In 1910, after her mother took over their primary business, a general store, her mother was killed after being run over by a truck while returning home from church. By age 14, Loretta had been rapced twice (at age 11, by an elderly black man, and at age 13, by a white sheriff) and had two children who she was forced to give up for adoption. At the encouragement of her grandmother, Loretta ran away to Cleveland, Ohio, joining a traveling vaudeville-style minstrel show called Butterbeans and Susie, where she sang and entertained. She developed an onstage persona as an old woman with a frumpy housedress, funny hat, and toothless gums, years before she was old. It was an homage to her grandmother. In character, she was able to be edgy with her routine covering racism and sexual innuendo through double entendres without offending. Her "bit" was to pretend to be a dirty old lady, lusting after younger men. She came out as a lesbian at the age of twenty-seven, becoming one of the first openly gay comedians. During the 1920s and 1930s she appeared in androgynous clothing (as she did in the film version of The Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson) and recorded several of her early "lesbian stand-up" routines. It wasn't until the 1960s that Mabley was "discovered" by white audiences, even though she had been performing for several decades at that point. Loretta Aiken took her stage name, Jackie Mabley, from an early boyfriend, commenting to Ebony in a 1970s interview that he had taken so much from her, it was the least she could do to take his name. Later she became known as "Moms" because she was indeed a "Mom" to many other comedians on the circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. She is the subject of Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, an HBO documentary film in 2013.
The Drink
Kir Royale 38
1 tsp cognac
1 tsp grand marnier
6-8oz champagne
1/2 orange slice for garnish
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 3
Accessibility: 3
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments: Ratings are a little fuzzy - girls have gotten pretty hilarious themselves.
From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster
March, 2017 - Fanny Brice - Whisky Sour
Fania Borache (October 29, 1891 - May 29, 1951)
Known professionally as Fanny Brice, Fania was born in New York City, the third child of a Hungarian Jewish woman and Alsatian immigrant. The Boraches were saloon owners. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue. Two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies. Her hit songs included "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose." Her films include My Man (1928), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938) with Judy Garland. From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Brice did not like to rehearse the roll ("I can't do a show until it's on the air, kid.") Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation. Brice married a barber, Frank White, whom she met in 1910 when she was touring. The marriage lasted three years until she brought suit for divorce. Her second husband was professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein. Prior to their marriage, Arnstein served fourteen months in Sing Sing for wiretapping. Brice visited him in prison every week. In 1918 they were married after living together for six years. In 1924, Arnstein was charged in a Wall Street bond theft. Brice insisted on his innocence and funded his legal defense at great expense. Arnstein was convicted and sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, where he served three years. Reluctantly, Brice divorced him on September 17, 1927, soon after his release, and Arnstein disappeared from Brice's life and that of their two children. Brice married songwriter and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929 and appeared in his revue Crazy Quilt, among others. Brice sued Rose for divorce in 1938.
The Drink
Whisky Sour
2 oz bourbon whisky
2 tsp sugar (or honey for one lady)
1 tbsp lemon juice
maraschino cherry and orange slice for garnish
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 5
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments:
From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.
Known professionally as Fanny Brice, Fania was born in New York City, the third child of a Hungarian Jewish woman and Alsatian immigrant. The Boraches were saloon owners. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue. Two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies. Her hit songs included "My Man" and "Second Hand Rose." Her films include My Man (1928), Be Yourself! (1930) and Everybody Sing (1938) with Judy Garland. From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Fanny made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Brice did not like to rehearse the roll ("I can't do a show until it's on the air, kid.") Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation. Brice married a barber, Frank White, whom she met in 1910 when she was touring. The marriage lasted three years until she brought suit for divorce. Her second husband was professional gambler Julius W. "Nicky" Arnstein. Prior to their marriage, Arnstein served fourteen months in Sing Sing for wiretapping. Brice visited him in prison every week. In 1918 they were married after living together for six years. In 1924, Arnstein was charged in a Wall Street bond theft. Brice insisted on his innocence and funded his legal defense at great expense. Arnstein was convicted and sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, where he served three years. Reluctantly, Brice divorced him on September 17, 1927, soon after his release, and Arnstein disappeared from Brice's life and that of their two children. Brice married songwriter and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929 and appeared in his revue Crazy Quilt, among others. Brice sued Rose for divorce in 1938.
The Drink
Whisky Sour
2 oz bourbon whisky
2 tsp sugar (or honey for one lady)
1 tbsp lemon juice
maraschino cherry and orange slice for garnish
Drinkability: 2.5
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 5
Priority for Conservation: 4
Comments:
From "Women in Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.
March, 2017 - Carol Burnett - Watermelon Champagne
Carol Burnett (April 26, 1933 - )
An American actress, comedienne, singer and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. In 1963, she was the star of the Dallas State Fair Musicals presentation of "Calamity Jane." Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
The Drink
Watermelon Champagne
3 cubs cubed, seeded watermelon
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 bottle champagne
(makes 8)
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments:
From "Women of Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.
An American actress, comedienne, singer and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. In 1963, she was the star of the Dallas State Fair Musicals presentation of "Calamity Jane." Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.
The Drink
Watermelon Champagne
3 cubs cubed, seeded watermelon
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 bottle champagne
(makes 8)
Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Taxic Diversity: 2
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5
Comments:
From "Women of Comedy" themed meeting, hosted by Ball Buster.
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