Anistatia Miller

At a Glance Mixellany is the name attached to that history, and it reads as both record and working platform. For a drinks historian, it signals a place where history, culture, and reference were gathered into a digital format early enough to feel provisional, but durable enough to remain part of the career line.

Signature

Shaken Not Stirred and Martini Place are the named signatures in Anistatia Miller’s work. As titles, they sit squarely in cocktail language, but they also mark a historian’s habit of treating drinks as subjects with context, not just names on a list. Shaken Not Stirred has the blunt familiarity of a standard order; Martini Place reads like a fixed point in the early web, a title that suggests location, focus, and recurring interest in the Martini as a subject of record.

In Their Words “We launched Mixellany’s predecessor Martini Place on Halloween 1995 and within a short period of time reached 10,000 visitors which was amazing in the early years of the internet.” The useful detail here is the timing: Halloween 1995, and 10,000 visitors in the early years of the internet. It places Mixellany’s predecessor in a period when scale was measured differently, and when that kind of traffic signaled real reach for a niche drinks publication. “When a caterer failed to report on the day of the dinner I was holding for 55 people, Daniel suggested Jared would be a good candidate.” The line is plain and operational, which is part of its value. It names the pressure of feeding 55 people and the immediate solution that came through Daniel’s suggestion. That kind of no-drama correction is often what keeps a working project intact when plans break down.