Cheryl Charming aka Miss Charming™ has been heavily steeped in the
cocktail culture as a bartender since 1980. She has 15 published
bar and cocktail related books.
In high school she worked as a pizza waitress then quickly
progressed to cocktail waitress, barback, bartender, and head
bartender. With a penchant for travel, Cheryl tended bar many
places around America, a cruise ship in the Caribbean, and Walt
Disney World. While working at WDW she became the bar trick/bar
magic instructor for Disney's F&B training program, Quest for
the Best.
Cheryl was also involved with hosting and participating in events
for Tales of the Cocktail and teaching "Edutaining" cocktail
classes for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line passengers. She is a member
of The Bartenders Guild and The Museum of the American
Cocktail.
Cheryl studied Graphic and Interactive Communication at Ringling
College of Art & Design and works as a freelance graphic artist on
the side.
Currently, she lives in the French Quarter and is the bar director
at Bourbon O Bar on the corner of Bourbon and Orleans inside the
Bourbon Orleans Hotel in the French Quarter.
She was named "Mixologist of the Year" on 2014 by New Orleans
Magazine. gaz regan, the bartender formerly known as Gary Regan,
writes The Cocktailian, a bi-weekly column, for The San Francisco
Chronicle. He has also written regular columns in The Malt
Advocate, Nation's Restaurant News, Cheers Magazine, and The Wine
Enthusiast, and his work has been featured in magazines such as
Food Arts, Food & Wine, Wine & Spirits, Imbibe (UK & USA), and
various others. His work is also published in magazines in the
U.K., Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany,
Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Slovakia, South
Africa, Switzerland, and Russia.
gaz works regularly with companies such as Diageo, Pernod-Ricard,
Heaven Hill, and other major spirits producers and marketers, and
he travels the world holding workshops, judging cocktail
competitions, and making public appearances. He's a regular judge
at Diageo's World Class competition, he speaks at the London
Cocktail Week, and he has judged cocktail competitions in
Australia, France, London, Slovakia, and of course, the USA.
gaz also heads up the Bar Smarts Graduates Program for
Pernod-Ricard USA -- it's a traveling roadshow of cocktail
innovators, movers, and shakers that roams the USA highlighting
innovative bartending techniques of the best of the best in the bar
business.
gaz publishes a free e-mail newsletter, gaz regan's Notion, that
reaches over 9,000 bartenders and consumers, and he maintains the
Worldwide Bartender Database, an on-line community that's well over
2,000 strong. Over 80% of the members of this database are in the
USA, and the vast majority of the best bars in America are
represented here. gaz uses the database to let bartenders know
about jobs, competitions, and festivals in The Weekly Shooter, and
he also sends solid information to member bartenders in another
weekly email newsletter, The Bartender's Bulletin.
gaz's first book, The Bartender's Bible, was published in 1991, and
between 1995 and 1998, together with Mardee Haidin Regan, he
co-wrote The Book of Bourbon and Other Fine American Whiskey, The
Bourbon Companion, New Classic Cocktails, and The Martini
Companion.
gaz wrote The Joy of Mixology in 2003, the Bartender's GIN
Compendium in 2009, and The Cocktailian Chronicles: The Professor
Years, Volume 1, was published in June, 2010. gaz regan's Annual
Manual for Bartenders was released in 2011, and if he gets a move
on there will be another edition in 2013.
gaz also conducted Cocktails in the Country, a series of two-day
bartender workshops, for seven years, from 2001 until 2007. During
his 7-year run, gaz trained bartenders from top cocktail bars in
New York, London, Bratislava, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Miami, Boston, and various other major cities.
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