Hello Tessin fans, Many appreciaters of TR cocktails have been asking for updates from the homefront…. We are doing our very best to make our Houston home as cool as we possibly can. And rest assured, in the meantime we are absolutely welcoming visitors and serving cocktails of many sorts. Some of the moving process [...]

Quiz:  What absolutely perfect, classic novel was first titled (though never published as) First Impressions ? Regardless of whether you know the novel (though I hope you do), the point here is that first impressions aren’t always right, but that they do matter.  In the real-life Tessin Rinpoche salon (my home), I’ve been thinking about the [...]

Tessa was clear when he started this blog that not ALL of the posts would be about mixology – that things go on in the living room besides cocktail-drinking.  We agree that there is more to mixology than shaking and stirring; one must consider the whole milieu.  Upon questioning the drink-mixer himself about what form [...]