Nancy Mitchell: Contributing Writer for Simply Recipes

Location: New York, New York

Expertise: Cocktails

Nancy founded her blog, The Backyard Bartender, in 2010
She started writing for Simply Recipes in 2018.
She's also covered cocktails for The Kitchn and had work appear on Vinepair and Apartment Therapy.

Experience

Nancy started making cocktails a long time ago. It started as a fun thing to do with friends, and then became a creative outlet, which led her to start her blog to share recipes in 2010. She wrote a cocktail column for The Kitchn for a short time and started writing for Simply Recipes in 2018.

Favorite cocktail: "People always ask me what my go-to cocktail is and for a long time the answer was 'beer', but now I can actually answer this question and say that my go-to summer cocktail is a margarita, and my go-to winter cocktail is a Brandy Alexander, which I only discovered when I wrote about it for this site. It is an excellent drink."

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