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About LUPEC Boston

The Boston chapter of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) is a classic cocktail society dedicated to breeding, raising, and releasing nearly extinct drinks into the wild (a.k.a. Boston-area bars and restaurants.) Founded in February 2007 by Misty Kalkofen and nine fellow cocktail enthusiasts, LUPEC Boston is the city’s first and only female-oriented cocktail society. The ladies of LUPEC Boston meet once a month to sample delicious cocktail creations from a bygone era, and educate themselves about the important and nearly forgotten forebroads who sipped them.

In addition to preserving our own personal Joie de Vivre by guaranteeing members one good cocktail party every month, LUPEC Boston strives to enhance and improve the lives of Boston-area women through fundraising events for local women’s charities. LUPEC Boston partners with local bars and liquor purveyors to offer co-ed classic cocktail parties and special events. Check back often to find out more about what we’re mixing up around town.

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About LUPEC

Founded in Pittsburgh in 2001, Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (a.k.a. LUPEC) is an all women’s classic cocktail society. Their mission:“In a post-millenial world of beer and prepackaged Chex Mix™, LUPEC works tirelessly to breed, raise, and release cocktails that are endangered or even believed to be extinct.”

LUPEC seeks to: “invoke and honor the spirits of their Forebroads; continue the American tradition of dangerous women calling themselves Ladies and getting together in groups, clubs, and societies to work undercover while they chip away at the patriarchy; to protect the collective Joie de Vivre of LUPEC members by assuring them at least one good party a month; to encourage the accumulation and use of vintage serving and barware.”

LUPEC chapters now exist in several major cities across the country, including New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, and New Orleans. For more information about LUPEC visit www.lupec.org.

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  1. on November 6, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Reply spacer Cara Hogan

    I would really love to write a story for my paper about LUPEC and interview Misty Kalkofen, but only if she is Jewish, since we are a Jewish paper. Please let me know if she is or not and get in touch with my by the email above. Thanks so much!


  2. on May 26, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Reply spacer muriel weadick

    I have a suggestion for the next club meeting – there is a cocktail that has been served in Canada for fifty years and I have yet to find a bar tender in any bar of the US that has any clue about it – the cocktail was invented in Calgary, Alberta, Canada – it consists of clamato juice, vodka, celery salt, worcestershire sauce, in a tall glass with three cubes of ice. Celery stalk serves as a stir stick.
    If you are interested in exact measurements/recipe, just let me know.


    • on October 16, 2009 at 2:13 am | Reply spacer megan carroll

      That is the classic Caesar but missing the tabasco sauce…. beautiful drink and a great start for any sort of debauchery. Grew up with it in my peripheral and was probably my first adult drink at a restaurant. It never occurred to me that it wasn’t just a Canadian drink because of it’s popularity!


      • on October 22, 2009 at 12:30 am spacer muriel

        You are correct Megan, I did forget to mention the tabasco sauce!


  3. on July 3, 2009 at 3:03 am | Reply spacer Chairman Chow

    Well, is Misty Jewish? The suspense is killing me!


  4. on July 27, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Reply spacer Jess Packer

    Hello ladies!! spacer I am in Pittsburgh and trying to locate the local chapter, but the websites i have found haven’t been updated in years… Can anyone help me?


  5. on August 6, 2009 at 2:22 am | Reply spacer DAVE HENRY

    Dear Ladies,

    Finding you was via site surfing serendipity. A happy,
    get lucky occurance !

    Your quest to preserve endangered species of cock-
    tails is admirable. I completely agree with your phi-
    losophy; why try to improve upon the unimprovable?
    Personally, I’m an aficionado of the CLASSIC MARTINI
    (and classic movies too) . Too bad so many other things
    seem to be inexorably passing into oblivion. At any
    rate, thanks for helping keep the classic cocktail alive.

    Keep in touch. Cheers !

    Au revoir,

    Dave Henry


  6. on April 2, 2010 at 6:39 pm | Reply spacer Jessica

    I am interested in starting a chapter in my hometown, can anyone tell me how do do this?


    • on April 9, 2010 at 5:38 pm | Reply spacer Pink Lady

      Drop us a note at lupec@lupecboston.com! We’ll help however we can. Cin-cin!


  7. on April 30, 2010 at 8:33 am | Reply spacer lindsey

    ladies,
    love the blog! hope you don’t mind the reference and link in my own blog post (andoverliquors.wordpress.com) in hopes to bring more awareness to the classic & endagered drinks out there!
    best,
    lindsey


  8. on December 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm | Reply spacer Dorothy

    Hi, I have a copy of The Cocktail Key which is a small red hardback inside is a piece of attached folded paper when opened out in full it gives the details/measures for cocktails. I think it may be about 1920 because it has Absinthe listed….
    Such a sweetie do you know anything about this maybe worth selling ???? Copyright Herbert Jenkins Lts., 3 Duke Street, London S.W.1.

    Cheers ladies compliments of the season….


  9. on May 25, 2011 at 12:47 am | Reply spacer The Minister of Alcohol

    As a proper Bostonian I commend you ladies on your endeavors. Keep loving that dirty water!



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