About the Alcoholians
The brain-child of Maksim K., the alcoholian.com website was originally conceived as a place where folks who enjoyed finely crafted alcohol based beverages could share how they used them. Quickly usurped by his (now former) office mate, John GL, food maven and chat-about, Maksim lost control and only posts when he has a buzz on.
Getting a little more serious, John GL started this Austin-based blog in September, 2007 after a friend, Maksim K. (shown at left enjoying lobster bisque at Truluck’s), who’d been nagging him to share his passion for cooking online, set up the site so that all John had to do was cook and write.
John grew up helping out in the kitchen; his father, a Croatian immigrant, became a butcher’s apprentice at age 11 so he wouldn’t ever have to worry about having food to eat. Food was taken very seriously. Playing guitar wasn’t.
John with his father in 1962. That is Dad on the left
John (shown below right as looking a little artsy) began cooking while in his early teens, then got really serious about it when his wife (now known as the most glorious spousal unit) purchased a decent set of cookware. John says, “Being a home-builder by trade at the time, I knew about the importance of good tools, but it never dawned on me that the same held for tools used in the kitchen.”
Although has has more than 200 cookbooks, he reads them for inspiration rather than cooking by recipe. He’s outfitted an outdoor patio kitchen for the specific purpose of cooking and hosting. He says, “The bottom line is that I love to cook … and I really enjoy the smiling faces I often see when folks consume the food that I prepare,”
