Assignment #8

For my blog this week I chose to watch the internet series called Art of the Drink. This is a series about bartending and making different drinks. Every week the bartender introduces a new drink and he makes it once going through each step then he has his female assistant make the same drink again. I chose this because I occasionally bartend at HSBC Arena and I thought it would be helpful for work and also for leisure.
Compared to normal television I think that it is very similar. Because this is a show that teaches you how to make drinks, I compared it to a show on the Food network where they teach you a new meal and go through the steps of how to make it. The only thing that would be different between the two types of shows would be length. For this bartending show, the episodes were only about ten minutes long where some food shows are a half hour to an hour long. When I went to the site and tried to watch the videos, I learned that I needed to subscribe to the Art of the Drink podcast, so instead I searched for it on YouTube and right away tons of episodes came up. So, it wasn’t very hard to find and if you don’t feel like downloading the podcast for your iPod, you can just go to YouTube and watch the episodes. I feel that this series can be very interactive, if you have all of these liquors and juices and the other supplies at hand, you can make the drink along with the show, so you can actually make it while learning from the show. I think that this type of series is more enjoyable than some television series, because you learn something that you want to learn and not some nonsense that you will never use in your life. If you intend on being a bartender or enjoy making new types of mixed drinks, this is a good series to watch.
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