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Amy Winehouse's Cocktail Recipe

by Linda Immediato

March 27, 2007 5:03 PM

Indie 103.1 has been playing Amy Winehouse's Rehab on constant rotation. I fell in LOVE at first listen. I immediately Youtubed it with my roommate. I thought Amy was of mixed African American and Caucasian decent, I heard others thought Middle Eastern, my roommate who is Jewish, took one look and screamed, "oh she's a Jew, I know my people." Turns out she's right, Winehouse is English-Jewish, and grew up in North London, and was part of rap group when she was 10 that she called "a little white Jewish Salt n Peppa." And the more we googled and delved, the more we fell in LOVE, eventually purchasing the album on itunes. We found out that Ray and Mr. Hathaway, references in the song Rehab, are nods to Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway.

Last year Winehouse was all over the British tabloids for being drunk on the Charlotte Church Show, heckling Bono at an award show (who can blame her for either of those), and cancelling two huge shows in London only to be spotted in the booze section of her local supermarket the next morning after one. She was dubbed Winohouse.

We discovered Winehouse's favorite cocktail is called a Rickstasy
Three parts vodka
one part Southern Comfort
one part banana liqueur
one part Baileys
"By the time you've had two of them you're like, don't even try and go anywhere. Sit down and stay down, until the birds start singing," she has said. I'm not sure but it sounds like a recipe to vomit. No wonder she puked half way through her first song at one gig. But you gotta love a party girl, one who puts her pain into her art, who is talented and sings it out, a tough chick who doesn't rush off to shave her head in a Tarzana salon.

Turns out Back to Black, her latest album's title, isn't about heritage or musical genre at all, it's about drinking. The lyrics on Rehab, "Yes, I've been black, but when I come back you'll know... know... know." Oh Amy, we know. We know.

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