This Week's Event: Award Winner Florence Williams!
This Week's Event: Award Winner Florence Williams!
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This week’s book cocktail (heart of Agave, folks!)
A Special Guest does a mysterious REVEAL
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The literary nonprofit PEN America revealed the winners of its annual literary awards at a ceremony in New York last Thursday evening hosted by actor and author Kal Penn… And Florence Williams won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award for Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey! Please join us this Thursday to congratulate Florence and to hear much more about HEARTBREAK. ALSO: we have a secret special guest! host of super-star book group You Should Try Reading will be joining us—for a reveal (no one on the group has yet to see his face)! We are super excited to bring him on board to talk about Florence’s book, which he also wrote a review for; not to be missed.
IT’S COCKTAIL TIME:
SEE FACEBOOK FOR VOTING ON NAMES! This cocktail gets to the “heart” of the desert Agave with a little TEQUILA TEA.
Make ahead of time:
Lemon Syrup:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Make a syrup with sugar and water, using a small pot on the stove and medium heat. After the sugar has dissolved, remove from heat and add 3 tablespoons of lemon juice. Stir, and let cool.
Just before enjoying:
Cocktail:
1 oz lemon syrup
1 cup Earl Grey tea (hot or cold)
2 oz peach syrup (from canned peaches)
1 oz gold tequila
0.5 oz peach schnapps
Garnish: 2 canned peach slices
Mocktail:
1 oz lemon syrup
1 cup Earl Grey tea (hot or cold)
3 oz canned peach syrup
1 oz fresh lemon juice
2 canned peach slices
Mix ingredients in a glass mug, and stir. Add two peach slices to sit at the bottom of the mug (garnish, but tasty).
Warm up peach syrup ahead of time if making a hot version of the cocktail/mocktail. Add ice cubes if making a cold version of the cocktail/mocktail.