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We’ve long put full stories and images on the home page, and I’m concerned that this may just be a bit too much to digest, and that it may be burying content down the page that people would like to see more easily. So I’m taking a poll:

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Remember, never take a drink from a stranger — even one dressed as Santa Claus.

A 15-year-old girl fell ill at a Berlin Christmas market on Saturday, bringing to eight the number of confirmed Christmas-market-poisonings this week. This time, though, the poisoner was apparently dressed as Santa Claus.

The unknown man offered the girl a paper cup containing the German spirit Schnaps at the market near Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. After drinking it, she vomited and suffered short-term memory loss.

Doctors confirmed that a substance, not yet identified, had been mixed into the drink….

Police said the victims may have been given a mixture of alcohol and so-called “knockout drops” meant to render people unconscious so they can be robbed or sexually assaulted.

It starts with Cynar, and takes a trip through Bakon, but really, this top 10 list of oddball alcoholic items at The Daily Meal had me at smoked salmon vodka.

So we’re the Featured Drink Blog of the Day at Foodista. It’s kind of a big deal, I guess. Here’s our badge to prove it.

Want to know more about me and Drinkhacker? Osmosis Online asked me a lot of questions to get to know the man behind the blog. This blog, I mean. Fun interview, I think.

It’s either this or Robitussin, I guess…

The best way to drink hand sanitizer is straight, like whisky, and down it “like a shot,” explains Tyler, a Grade 10 student who lives in Toronto. Undiluted, the alcohol-based liquid tastes a little like “vodka and bug spray,” he adds.

The alarming comment from the 15-year-old mirrors a growing number of news reports about teenagers and children drinking the antiseptic hand-cleaning products. Most hand sanitizers have an alcoholic content between 60 and 90 per cent, which means that even small amounts have led to a number of cases of alcohol poisoning in younger children.

Thanks, society!

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…this is what you get for Christmas.

Not that I’m complaining!

Today Filmcritic.com offers the end-all be-all list of the best movie booze addicts:

Something tells us that when the Oscars next televise one of their precious “tribute montages” — like they do for “comedy,” “westerns,” or “trains” — it won’t be to honor that most essential of cinematic characters: The drunk. And yet, flip through the history books and you’ll see that some of cinema’s greatest and most-honored performances have come from actors playing men (and women) who were a little heavy-handed with the bottle.

Videos included for almost all of the honorees, but Nicolas Cage’s liquor store dance from Leaving Las Vegas may be the best of the bunch.

Epicurious previews the menus of tomorrow with this interesting list.

Noodle bars are becoming more popular (Blade Runner, here we come!)! Peruvian food is in! Ginger is the new mint!

And apparently we’ll be eating a lot of smoked food next year… and drinking smoke-infused cocktails as well:

Bartenders are smoking their bourbons (Eben Freeman at Tailor, for example), and chefs, recognizing the national craze for BBQ, are smoking more than just salmon and ribs: nuts, salts, even smoked steelhead roe (at Chicago’s Alinea). Who says smoking’s bad for you?

And the hip place to eat in ’09? You’re gonna have to schlep all the way to Portland, Maine.

The world mourns for Jim Adams. Read to the bottom…

In lieu of flowers, he asks that you make a sizeable purchase at your favorite watering hole, get rip roaring drunk and tell the stories he no longer can.

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Welcome to Drinkhacker.com! This blog will be devoted to cocktails and cocktailcrafting/mixology, with diversions into wine, beer, bar food, and other tangential subjects. Consider the site in beta for now. We’re setting up a small studio to photograph drinks properly and commissioning a real site designer after that. Expect loads of new and classic cocktail recipes, beverage reviews, bar coverage, and more! Got an idea for coverage? Email me at n u l l /at/ d r i n k h a c k e r /dot/ c o m!