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The Sporkful

The Mixologist Who Stopped Drinking

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The holidays are a time when many of us have a few extra drinks — or spend time with people having a few extra drinks. This week we’re talking with LP O’Brien, an award-winning mixologist in Washington, DC. A couple years back, she decided to quit drinking, a decision that she says made her better at her job.

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0:00.0

Every Christmas season, I make a batch of homemade eggnog using the recipe from Joy of Cooking.

0:08.9

And, I mean, to me, it's hilarious.

0:10.7

If you make eggnog from scratch, it's basically like a cake.

0:13.9

It's eggs.

0:15.1

Right.

0:15.4

It's a dozen eggs, a pound of sugar, and a whole bunch of cream.

0:20.1

But then instead of flour, you use liquor.

0:22.3

Yeah, you're preserving egg batter, like cake batter. It's basically preserved cake batter that you can

0:27.6

drink. Well, egg knock is boozy. Oh, it's very strong. Yeah, this stuff will knock you on your

0:32.1

butt. I can have one egg knock and I probably won't even finish it because it is a little bit

0:35.7

too much of everything for me.

0:45.9

This is the Spork Full. It's not for foodies. It's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show,

0:51.5

we obsess about food to learn more about people. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

0:55.6

I hope you ate all the turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes or whatever it is that you look forward to eating on Thanksgiving.

0:57.8

My Thanksgiving was very delicious.

0:59.4

Thank you for asking.

1:00.9

Now, as we turned towards December, a couple quick notes.

1:03.5

Remember that my cookbook, Anything's Pastaable, which was just named one of Wired's best

1:07.1

cookbooks of 2024, is a great holiday gift, as are all my pastas sold by Svalini,

1:12.4

and they're available as a gift set. Buy them together, buy them separately, get them at

1:15.7

sfolini.com, get anything's possible wherever books are sold. And we are getting ready

1:19.8

for our year-end episode, which means I need your New Year's food resolutions. What food

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