Slowness can be a delight; when you slow down, there's more freedom to just enjoy being. Even better, free-floating anxiety about Google+ begins to melt away.
This principle is taken to heart at Slow Food Austin's long-running series Slow Session. This month's theme is 'Tales of the Texas Cocktail'. The session, which is more truly a lecture and demonstration combo, is being held Monday, July 11 at Foreign & Domestic. The evening's focus is -- you guessed it -- the cocktail.
Not to point out the obvious Austinites, but did you know that the holidays are here?
Of course you did. That's why you've traded your morning breakfast for gingerbread lattes! Your ironic Christmas sweaters are ready to be donned. Your television repeatedly offers goofy Chevy Chase and/or Tim Allen flicks. There's just one thing missing, and I think you know what it is: your holiday spirit(s).
As students of alcohol history know, the production and importation of absinthe was illegal here in the United States until very recently: December 2007. Thanks to the Prohibitionists (seriously, thanks guys), the stuff had been banned Stateside since 1912, due to health concerns that its high alcohol content and compositional character caused madness. But who's madder than a drunk Austinite? No one, that's who.
