Friendship test: Ivy Mix & Lynnette Marrero
Breaking barriers since 2011, Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero are the visionaries behind Speed Rack, the world renowned all-female-identifying bartending competition, putting talented, up-and-coming bartenders on the cocktail map, while also raising over $1 million for breast cancer research charities. At this year’s Tales of the Cocktail, SpeedRack celebrated its tenth edition. Pioneers, colleagues and of course great friends, but will these two bar icons stand the Campari Academy Friendship Test?
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Minakshi Singh: I overcame challenges to build my bar business in India – I hope other women can tooThe co-founder of India’s Cocktails & Dreams Speakeasy and Sidecar bars, Minakshi Singh, is a vocal leader in a market where being a woman behind the bar comes with legal and cultural implications. She explains how, against she odds, she built her businesses
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The 4 types of creativity explainedWhether conscious or impromptu, creativity can be achieved by using different strategies and for different purposes. We do a deep dive into the main types of creativity – which one do you fit into?
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Is creativity important? 8 bartenders have their sayAs we launch ‘Unlocking creativity’, the first episode of Perspectives Season 3, we ask eight bartenders from around the world a very simple question: Is creativity important?
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Friendship test: Alex Jump & Lauren Paylor O'BrienThe US-based bartenders who also run hospitality wellbeing project, Focus On Health, take Campari Academy's friendship test. They talk country songs, pet names and sober bachelorette parties
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Drink like a local: Paris with Aurélie PanhelleuxThe city of lights is home to a heady mix of traditional and contemporary hospitality. We met bar entrepreneur Aurélie Panhelleux for a crash course in the food and drink experiences only Paris can offer. Life's too short to drink bad wine – or pastis, for that matter
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Drink Like a Local: 5 Bars in Rome You Can't MissThe Eternal City: though famous for its history, landmarks and cuisine, Rome also offers equally superb experiences when it comes to drinking, and the recent Rome Bar Show proved it. Here is a shortlist of the five bars in Rome you must try, for a proper dive into the Capital’s night life. JERRY THOMAS SPEAKEASY […]
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Travel and Discover: a Bartender's WanderlustTravel and discover: two key aspects of a bartender's life, to enhance curiosity and expand the mind. Monica Berg takes us to her favourite places through memories and pictures.
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Numbers Game: 8 ways to Ensure Your Bar Design isn’t Costing you MoneyYour design choices can greatly impact yuor financial performances. Here's how to make sure your bar design is not causing you to lose money.
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Ivy Singh-Lim is fighting for Singapore's farming futureShe could have spent her retiring days anywhere in the world: instead, Ivy Singh-Lim decided to come back to her native Singapore, establishing Bollywood Farms and fighting for her country's future