OUR WHO'S WHO Tucson'sMixology Stars by Robert Plotkin
La Cocina's famous mixology couple,
Elizabeth Menke and Churchill Brauninger.
W
ith a population of just over a million people, Tucson remains a city with a small-town persona. While best known as the home of the University of Arizona, Tucson is also a booming hospital- ity town. It likely has more resorts, hotels, restaurants and bars per capita than any city in the Southwest. Over the past several years, increasing demand for bartenders has swelled the city's ranks of accomplished mixolo- gists. Tucson's growing community of drink-makers is now second to none.
