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The Yucca
By RYAN HUME
Mary Todd’s Workers Bar & Grill likes
to wear its eccentricities proudly. From
the oyster-shell ashtrays on the back
patio to the numerous brassieres hang-
ing from the ceiling fans inside, this is a
place that revels in a good time.
The Yucca, its signature cocktail, is
no exception. Bold and stiff , this punch
is said to have originated out of the river
rafting community, where it was mixed
up in large gallon-sized jars for an all-
day sip and drift. Word has it this arrived
at Mary Todd’s by way of Prineville, Ore-
gon and a bartender named Cama.
Really, a Yucca can be anything as
long as it preserves these basic tenets:
booze, fruit, sugar and ice shaken till the
glass ices over.
At Mary Todd’s, they wrap a pint jar
in a towel and really give it what for. It
takes a bit of work, all that shaking, but
a perfectly frozen glass fi lled with a deli-
cious, boozy lemonade is certain to cure
many ills on a hot summer day.
Ingredients:
3 ounces vodka (double
shot)
One lemon, quartered
Simple syrup
Ice
—Recipe courtesy of Bjorn, bar-
tender at Mary Todd’s Workers Bar & Grill,
Astoria, Oregon
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By RYAN HUME
Cathlamet
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also, Kathlamet
noun
1. Kathlamet: a Chinookian
tribe that lived on the Colum-
bia River in Oregon and south-
western Washington. Also, the
language the tribe spoke, a
dialect of Chinook
2. Located on the north bank
of the Columbia River opposite
Puget Island along the Ocean
Beach Highway in southwestern
Washington, this town of 532
— according to the 2010 U.S.
census — is the county seat of
Wahkiakum County
Origin:
A large Indian village for many
generations. First marked on a
map as “Cathlamah” by Lewis and
Clark in 1805-1806; this is generally
thought to be a misspelling on
the part of the explorers of the
Indian word, calamet, meaning
“stone” as a nearby river has a bed
littered with rock. Other variations
followed, including “Kahelamit”
by Dr. W. F. Tolmie of the Hudson’s
Bay Company in 1833. When the
area was fi rst settled by whites in
1846 by James Birnie, also of the
Hudson’s Bay Company, the area
became known as “Birnie’s Retreat”
for a spell before being designated
as Cathlamet, with this offi cial
spelling, in August 1851 when a
U.S. Post Offi ce was established.
“Cathlamet on the Columbia was, from time
immemorial, the center of the Indian people on the
Lower River…. Chinook was only a mud beach, a
mere fishing station, but Cathlamet was an Indian
town before Gray sailed into the River or Lewis and
Clark passed by on their way to the sea.”
—Thomas N. Strong, “Indians of the Lower
Columbia,” The Sunday Oregonian, Nov. 10, 1901, P. 1
“My father, James Birnie, came from Aber-
deen, Scotland, to Montreal in 1816, and there
spent two years acquiring the French language
and making preparations for the journey West in
the service of the Northwest Fur Company, whose
headquarters were at Montreal…. In 1844, or
perhaps earlier, he sent a force of men to clear the
land and erect the necessary buildings at the ‘Re-
treat,’ as the present Cathlamet was then known,
and in the following year he moved there, taking
among other things a band of Spanish cattle which
he had pasturing on Clatsop Plains; the herd and its
descendants remaining for many years.”
—K. D. Birnie, “Cathlamet’s Early Days,” The
Morning Oregonian, Monday, Dec. 30, 1901, P. 8
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Directions:
Add vodka to a 16-ounce
Mason jar with a lid. Squeeze
three of the lemon quarters
into the jar and then add the
remaining lemon quarter
whole. Top off the jar with
ice, then fi nish it off with the
simple syrup. Close the lid
tightly and wrap securely in
a kitchen or bar towel and
shake.
Keep shaking.
Then shake it some more.
All in all, you will probably
want to shake it for a good
fi ve minutes. When the ice
has completely frosted the
jar, enjoy.
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