Lookie Here: Our Very Own Shane Smith Gets the Bar Guide Profile Treatment

By • Aug 27th, 2010 • Category: Blog

If you ever wanted to know about our co-publisher and associate editor’s drinking habits, well this is your lucky week. The Jersey City Bar Guide caught up with Shane Smith for its latest “What Are They Drinking?” column; here’s a taste (*pun intended*):

The way some people (‘foodies’) enjoy learning about and experiencing food, I like to learn about and try out different spirits. I guess that makes me a ‘boozie’? I like the way drinks can say something about a person. Do you like house gin with tonic and a lime, or are you a Beefeater straight-up, in-and-out with a twist? I like the fact that different variations on essentially two processes – fermentation and distillation – can create such a dizzying array of flavors and drinking experiences – and then those can be combined endlessly. I like the rituals that have grown up around drinking, everything from songs to glassware.

Check out the entire piece here.

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is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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  • JC_mayday

    I’m quite impressed & intrigued. To read about a thinking man’s take on drinking reminds me that there is indeed an art to boozing. Why not? Like much of life, it can be about “learning” and “experiencing” — the subtle tastes, the processes that create them & the “rituals” of enjoying them. I could only hope to someday enjoy a drink of Scotch with Shane … the man, the legend.