“At the end of the day, I get the most satisfaction in knowing that the time and care we dedicate to our craft is converting the gin bemused into the gin enthused. She’s even winning over some whiskey drinkers along the way.
But don’t let that fool you, Debbie and crew are still devoted to a gin mission above all else. Next door, the distillery team is busy doing more experimentation of their own, with fancy liqueurs-and laying down more single malt into barrels. The highlight from that particular group is the Panacea, melding Manzanilla sherry, amaro and soy sauce into soulful blast of umami. There are even a few low-ABV and non-alcoholic alternatives. Every bartender had a hand in creating at least one of the offerings on a menu that includes more than a dozen total. It contains scotch, but not ingredient made by Chemist. The Outlander is a peat-forward Penicillin riff topped with a local pilsner. Highlights from the holiday list include an agave spirit-based concoction called Snake Oil, which also uses Chemist’s crowd pleasing Chocolate Orange Liqueur and a mole-infused simple syrup to create a savory and deeply complex arrangement. And though the distillery next door is now making more liquids than ever before-including a single malt and a bierbrand-they’re perfectly willing to showcase spirits from further afield. And the loosening of North Carolina’s once-cumbersome liquor regulations is allowing them to spread their wings without limitation. The bar staff is getting funky with the experimentation on a seasonally-inspired menu. Meanwhile back at home, Antidote has become Asheville’s most popular outpost for top-notch tipples. (Photography credit Giulia Giannini McGauran.) Join Madeleine on her CreativeMornings FieldTrip on Navigating Productivity Guilt on February 15! This is an edited extract from Madeleine Dore’s new book I Didn’t Do the Thing Today.The stylish interior of Antidote Tim Robison Elizabeth Melvin, founding director of The Freedom Choir and the. When we conflate productivity with worthiness, what we do is never enough. Daily Antidote of Song: Making each day better, one song at a time Apr. We can always do more, and there is always more to do. There’s the laundry thing, the catch-up thing, the replying to a text thing, the grocery shopping thing, the cooking thing, the cleaning thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the work thing, the medical thing, the thing we ought to do, the thing we don’t want to do, the thing we’ve put off despite it being the one important thing. With this pile of undone things often comes an undercurrent of guilt, anxiety or shame. Instead of being alive to the variances of what is done in a day-sometimes a little, sometimes a lot-we spiral in a slew of ‘if onlys’: if only I were more productive, if only I were more efficient, if only I were better, if only I were more like that person … then I could do it right, do enough, be enough. If our days have become crowded containers for what we did or did not do, perhaps we do not need to pursue more ways to be productive, but rather shake up the contents. I’ve had too many days to count that have been flattened by productivity guilt. They follow a pattern: there is the thing I should be doing, but for whatever reason I find myself not doing the thing at this time, so instead I don’t do anything. Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to at least enjoy the day instead of washing it away with guilt? How productivity narrows and creativity expands Instead of turning my attention to something else that can be done, the day seems to evaporate as I sit, stifled by the taunt, I didn’t do the thing today, I didn’t do the thing today. Productivity is too narrow a lens for our days. It flattens the day to a plan, an order, an outcome. When the day takes a different shape, we find ourselves coiled in a spiral, narrowing in on ourselves and our shortcomings. Productivity tells us to live sequentially, but our days rarely unfold in perfect order. Not only does each day vary, but we vary within them. We are constantly shifting, creating and re-creating parts of ourselves.
I have come to see the value in being more flexible with the order and shape of things: I can see what I have done, or what I can do differently, or what can still be done later.
I can find ways to expand my day beyond a certain kind of doing and define my own process.
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