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Pomegranate-Ginger Fizz
By RYAN HUME
Complimentary...
When faced with a bold new ingre-
dient, what’s an intrepid bar staff to do?
Well, when the bar menu rotates season-
ally, as it does at Astoria’s Bridgewater
Bistro, the answer is simple: Create a new
signature cocktail to showcase it.
In an eff ort to integrate a new product,
Spiritopia Ginger, a hand-crafted small-batch
liqueur out of Corvallis, the staff cut the spice
of the ginger, which can come off as a bit me-
dicinal when slurped alone, with one of win-
ter’s most benefi cial seasonal fruits — the
pomegranate. The result is both sweet and
sharp and has been a hit with patrons.
Considering that ginger and pome-
granates have each been rumored to
have aphrodisiac qualities for centuries
— ginger for its circulatory bump, while
the pomegranate has to contend with the
knowledge that many consider it to be
the fruit Eve plucked from a certain tree
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noun
1. Anatomy. A muscular
organ in the mouth respon-
sible for taste, smell (in some
creatures like snakes) and (in
humans) the articulation of
speech
2. a language or way of
speaking
3. Tongue Point. A wooded
peninsula jutting nearly a mile
into the Columbia River on the
east end of Astoria. Tongue
Point has been home to a mill,
a U.S. Naval Air Base and a U.S.
Coast Guard Station among
other things and in 1965
became one of the nation’s fi rst
Job Corps sites, which is still in
use today
Origin:
Before 899, developed as
tunge in the Old English as a
cognate with the Old Frisian,
tunge, and the Old Saxon,
tunga, all meaning the organ
— this cocktail would
be a welcome
addition to any
Valentine’s table .
1 heavy ounce of Pome-
granate schnapps
1 ounce Spiritopia Ginger,
or other ginger liqueur
1 light ounce triple sec
Splash of 7-Up, or other
lemon-lime soda
Splash of soda water
Ice
Pomegranate seeds for
garnish
Shake ingredients with ice
in a cocktail shaker until cold.
Strain into a cocktail glass
and garnish with seeds.
—Recipe and story courtesy of Mimi
Gramson, Bridgewater Bistro, Astoria
of speech, or language. From
the Old High German, zanga.
Tongue Point was named
“Point William” by Lewis and
Clark when they camped there
in 1805, but it has retained its
previous name fi rst given by
one Lt. William Broughton of
the George Vancouver Expedi-
tion in 1792.
“From the heights back of Astoria, a view can
be obtained any summer evening, that is worth
miles of travel to any one having an eye for the
beautiful. Looking in either direction…the imme-
diate foreground is the city itself. On the east, four
miles above, Tongue point thrusts its mass of green
pines far out into the stream, forming one side of
the graceful bay in which the city lies.”
— H.L. Wells, “Gateway of the Columbia,” The
West Shore, Vol. 13, No. 7, July 1887, p. 508
“The Astoria relief committee urges that all
possible dispatch be observed in expediting plans
and specifi cations for the construction of the na-
val base at Tongue Point.
‘It is felt that the government probably could
render very great assistance to suff erers in Astoria
by getting started on this work at the earliest
practicable date. We would deeply appreciate the
maximum eff ort on your part to have relief of this
character extended, as it is the type of service that
Astoria need.’”
— The Oregonian News Bureau, “Astoria’s Plight
Moves President,” The Morning Oregonian, Thursday,
Dec. 14, 1922, p. 8
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