so, COMIDA MERCADO FRESCO, the joint where i now tend bar has a great cocktail menu. one of the offerings is pictured below, happily gleaming against the sunny sidewalk between 83 and 82nd street on columbus avenue. i’m proud to say that i helped put together COMIDA’S splendidly interesting cocktail menu, and this drink is significant because it bears COMIDA’S sun sign, or restaurant sign (laugh if you will). yup, like you and me, like the birds and the bees, like new york city itself, restaurants have zodiac signs. and that is because anything with a point of conception, a birth, a beginning, has a sign. COMIDA opened on march 11th which makes it fall under the rulership of dreamy, feeling, seductive pisces.

ok, so why blueberry? jupiter rules over everything bountiful, and no berry quite proliferates the way bayberry does on the bush. its almost impossible to pick them all once they get going! and because pisces is co-ruled by neptune and jupiter, due to medieval herbal astrology, blueberries are piscean!

what else are blueberries good for? hmnn… renowned astro docter, nicholas culpeper, claims that “the pulp of the berries made into a conserve with sugar is good for an old cough, an ulcer in the lungs, staying the vomiting or for binding the belly.” yum. so, next time you’re suffering from any of the aforesaid, swing by for a ZODIACO PISCES at COMIDA.

Zodiaco Piscis:
3 oz Pisco
3 barspoons blueberry jam
1 oz sour mix (half simple syrup/half fresh clear citrus)
shake very hard and strain into a sugar rimmed martini glass