mad-men

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from watching Mad Men, it’s drink early and often. No wait, we said that wrong — that makes it sound like we have a problem. Liquor before beer, all clear. No wait, that’s college. Here’s what it boils down to: simple syrup, because how else are you going to…

Behold: dishes we’ve either found, or could conceivably find, in the hour-long slice of television heaven we call Mad Men (running for one more precious season, which kicks off April 5). Take our update on Megan Draper’s coq au vin, for example. Or a fondue version of Pete’s pastrami Reuben. Or the best tuna noodle…

The House of Walker is a traveling promotion by Johnnie Walker where the brand rents out a magnificent house and invites Johnnie fans to come in and taste the goods. I expected it to be a boozier version of the House of Usher with less falling, but it turned out to just be a really…

What an epic weekend for sitting in front of a screen. First The Hunger Games, and now Mad Men. We've been running recipes all week in anticipation of more cheesecake, whiskey, Dinty Moore beef stew and other provisions that fuel our favorite advertising agency. Will you wear a suit? Will you black out on the…

As Don and Betty Draper celebrate Valentine's Day 1962 at New York's Savoy-Plaza Hotel, ordering room service and watching Jackie Kennedy's televised White House tour (see the dish it inspired here) Salvatore Romano and his wife Kitty are watching the same program in their New York apartment. The dessert Sal and Kitty are enjoying in…

We've been mixing Mad Men-appropriate cocktails for weeks now in anticipation of Sunday's 2-hour premiere. And because Mad Men-appropiate cocktails are everything a cocktail should be. Vodka martinis, classic Old-Fashioneds, even gimlets. The Sterling Cooper Sling, created by Nicholas Vitulli at The Montage Beverly Hills' Ten Pound is everything you love about Don Draper's Old-Fashioned,…

In the summer of 1961, several months before her televised tour of the White House, Jackie Kennedy had planned a state dinner in honor of Pakistan's president, Ayub Kahn, and his wife, and chose to hold it at Mt. Vernon, George Washington's home. Before the main course came an appetizer Betty would have died for,…

The fifth season of Mad Men is premiering on Sunday, and after the 17-month hiatus, we’re starving! During the first four seasons, the show has gone out of its way to feature how the up-and-coming ad men of the 1960s ate at home (Dinty Moore stew is good in a pinch) and drank at work…

One evening Trudy and Pete Campbell join Trudy's well-to-do parents, Tom and Jeannie Vogel, at a Manhattan restaurant for dinner. They begin with appetizers. When Trudy, every ounce Daddy's little girl, announces she has "great news," her mother, delightfully surprised, answers, "Already?" It's not what she thinks. Trudy isn't pregnant; she and Pete have found…