{"id":3405,"date":"2024-09-18T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2024-11-13T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T15:30:33","slug":"don-lee-cocktail-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/training\/past-events\/don-lee-cocktail-multiverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lee and Finding Your Place In The Mixed Drink Multiverse: Class Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Industry icon Don Lee joins The Academy for a free-roaming conversation on treating creativity as a muscle, how to do R&amp;D right, and why you shouldn&#8217;t create drinks based on your grandma&#8217;s cooking.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dXd2cVC1azw\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Don Lee: Finding Your Place  in the Mixed Drink Multiverse\" title=\"Play video &quot;Don Lee: Finding Your Place  in the Mixed Drink Multiverse&quot;\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dXd2cVC1azw<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dXd2cVC1azw\" title=\"Don Lee: Finding Your Place  in the Mixed Drink Multiverse\">Don Lee: Finding Your Place  in the Mixed Drink Multiverse (https:\/\/youtu.be\/dXd2cVC1azw)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Industry mentor Don Lee thinks about creativity often \u2013 how to hone it, strengthen it, and push our industry to places we have only dreamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He join us for a conversation about the process of creating new cocktails (if there are any such things), and how to thoughtfully and daringly join the centuries-long creative dialogue of the bartending craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A must watch for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Treating your creativity like a muscle<\/strong>: How to hone and strengthen it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Art School Approach<\/strong> <strong>to criticism<\/strong> and why makes you a better bartender.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Context as an ingredient, or <strong>why you should be drinking more Daiquiris<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cocktail Competition Tips<\/strong> (hint: Don Lee doesn&#8217;t know what your grandma&#8217;s cooking tastes like)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Want to make sure you&#8217;re in the know for upcoming classes? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/subscribe\/\">Sign up for our newsletter!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Your Teacher:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 90vw, (max-width: 1440px) 80vw, 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/don-lee-bartender-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bartender Don Lee\" class=\"wp-image-3297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/don-lee-bartender-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/don-lee-bartender-480x600.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.campariacademy.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/09\/don-lee-bartender.jpg 700w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a background in documentary photography and software engineering, <strong>Don Lee<\/strong>\u2019s fierce curiosity and fascination with creation and interpretation found a natural home behind the bar during the mid-aughts cocktail renaissance. 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