Link: Zen and the Art of Japanese Cocktail Development →
I'm not putting enough thought into my cocktails.
“Though wabi-sabi is an aesthetic and philosophy with a lot of parts, the one we’re concerned with here is making human things that reflect the beauty of nature. (Those green and blue liqueurs tend to represent leaves and water in cocktails.)
Suzuki says that when he carves an ice cube into an ice ball, it is with the wabi-sabi concept: the round ice ball is meant to resemble a river rock worn smooth by the water passing over it, representing the concept of ‘floating time.’”