The Job-Search Sidecar

The Optimistic Diva and I are snobs: wine snobs, beer snobs, foodie snobs; you name it, we can look our noses down at someone's choices.

All of which would make it particularly galling that we're pinching pennies these days were it not for the fact that we have always subscribed to the same philosophy of life that Pauline Kael brought to the movies:

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."

So when I confessed to buying a more "economical" bourbon in these times of financial hardship, the OD replied, "You're unemployed, not DEAD[.]"

But I stand buy downshifting from Maker's Mark to Ezra Brooks.

Especially since it's fun to refer to it as Ezra Pound.

But let's get on to the recipe.

The Job-Search Sidecar

• 1 small clementine orange, peeled and sectioned, put a flat-bottomed, old-fashioned glass
• 1-2 tablespoons fine sugar (resist the urge to use simple syrup; the next step is much more fun)
• take a muddler and go to town on the oranges and sugar
• fill glass with ice (crushed is preferred)
• fill to brim with bourbon
• stir
• sip
• smile