These days, I like my Old Fashioned a little sweeter. It used to be that I preferred it with extra bitters in the past.
Couple of twists in this drink – I used Old Fashioned sugar cube (you can get it from “The Bartender Atlanta”) and dried orange pieces to do the initial muddling. Bulleit Bourbon and Fee Brothers Old Fashioned bitters.
Had this idea for some time. Finally got to put it together. Put in a glass sheet on my writing desk. That is not interesting at all. What is though, is what I kept under it.
Tirtha, I was finally able to do justice to your gift. I now have all those old tickets of Kolkata bus, tram, train, autorickshaw, metro and ferry service neatly arranged on the left. I will see them everyday I sit down to write something.
On the right, is a collection of currencies from 25 different countries that I have visited in the past. For most of them, I had paper currency. Excepting four.
Mahmoud, you will notice that I have those two coins frrom ancient Indian civilization that was gifted to me by Mohammad Abu Ali also now on display!!
Our flight was delayed by about 30 minutes to get out of the gate. Apparently, there were not enough cleaning crew to clean the equipment. In any case, we pushed out of the gate amid heavy rains, lumbered our way to the end of the runway and with the engines springing to full life, started hurtling down the active runway.
It was then that I got this message from Delta that we will be delayed by 5 more hours (till 9:25PM).
A few seconds later, quickly climbing thru the air, I was still scratching my head – What was that all about?
Ran into old colleague Sri Chari at the Atlanta airport. I was waiting for my backpack to make it thru the security check when Sri, who had spotted me first, called out my name. Fortunately, both of us were flying out of Terminal A. That gave us an opportunity to settle down in the Skyclub there and catch up on our lives over the last decade.
