Tayari's Blog: Min Jin's Spin on A Classic

Posted by TayariJones on April 10, 2008 02:55 PM
Filed under Cocktails With Writers

Min Jin Lee will be taking part in Upstairs At The Square tonight in NYC. If you're around and not -- like me -- working late, you MUST attend.

Here's Min Jin's spin on a classic:
In my mind, I am a good drinker, because I am a good eater—an inveterate, unrepentant glutton of sorts with a gym membership. I eat butter, fried potatoes, white bread, spaghetti, and ice cream. I am never going to give up white rice. I am Korean, after all.

However, I had a liver disease for over twenty years, and though I am very well now, I do not drink alcohol. Well, not often. I am that girl at the table who will eye your lovely drink and ask, “Hey, you gonna finish that?” I am a sipper. Kind of like your temporary taster.

I am also a cook, and I look for reasons to make a party (that’s what you say in the boroughs). For brunch, I will fry up anything you want with eggs, cream and oil. At the house, there will be bacon and sausages, and I am delighted to bake you treats that will require a run or a swim. Outside the kitchen, my patient husband Christopher takes the coats and he’ll pour the drinks. This is what we serve on Saturday mornings:

BLOODY MARY:

  • 1 bottle of LOOZA tomato juice (33.8 oz)
  • 2-3 T bottled hot horseradish (not for the weak-kneed)
  • 5-6 dashes of Tabasco (The kitchen is operated by a Korean. See above.)
  • 10 -12 oz. of your favorite yuppie vodka (Ketel One, Stolichnaya, Absolut)
  • 2 T Worcestershire sauce
  • Freshly ground black pepper

    Combine the above ingredients into a large pitcher then pour into glasses filled with ice.
    Serves 4.


    "Assimilation. Independence. Love. Betrayal. Class. Race. Sex. It’s all in there. And reading FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES will, in the words of another writer to whom Lee has been compared, be a ‘far, far better thing’ than you’ve ever done.”
    – Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR DAY TO DAY

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