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As summertime is approaching and with restrictions being lifted for restaurants, there is a glimmer of normalcy for those of us working in the industry and guests alike.
I will admit, it was a bit overwhelming for me personally having the bar open back up. I’ve spent the past eight months doing service bar for the restaurant. However, seeing all of the familiar smiling faces and many new ones has been comforting.
One of my favorite parts of having guests actually sitting with me at the bar are the questions I get asked. People are always intrigued when you are making a cocktail. They want to know the steps, the ingredients, or how they can recreate their favorite at home. I was asked a while back how to make the perfect whiskey sour and if there were any other spirits I would recommend in place of whiskey. I was rattling off the usual suspects when I took a pause and thought about how I do love a good pisco sour.
It was at a California pizza joint where Mellie Wiersma, then a recent high school graduate, first got an up-close look at bartending.
“[I] always admired the bartenders, their attitude, and knowledge,” she said. It took many years working a desk job, on a “normal” path, before Wiersma set out to bartend full time.
Nearly two decades later, and Wiersma has helped to build and manage craft cocktail watering holes across Boston. Ever grabbed a cocktail at Bronwyn, Drink, Eastern Standard, Shore Leave, or Chickadee? Maybe you’ve chatted it up with the local bartender at the late, great dive, The Tam? She’s worked them all, as well as several spots across New York and Brooklyn.
JLF Architects Creates Iconic Montana House for Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador Max Baucus Reflecting Rustic Regionalism
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A Gallatin Valley Montana house designed by JLF Architects for U.S. Senator Max Baucus and his wife, Melodee Hanes, exemplifies the firm’s Regionalist approach, combining historic forms and antique salvage materials to create contemporary houses that respect the landscape. Featured in the annual Big Sky Journal HOME issue, the Baucus house takes JLF’s rustic modern architecture in a prairie direction in keeping with the site’s agricultural history.
Big Sky Journal’s April 2021 HOME issue features the JLF-designed Baucus-Hanes house, with natural materials and low-slung lines that make it unobtrusive on its valley site (photo: Audrey Hall).