cocktails
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Started in 2013, Negroni Week has evolved from a simple showcase to a celebration of cocktail ingenuity. Though the classic is based on one part Campari, one part gin and one sweet red vermouth, Beverly…
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“Don’t bother with churches, government buildings or city squares, if you want to know about a culture, spend a night in its bars,” said Ernest Hemingway, possibly history’s biggest advocate of the Daiquiri. The Daiquiri…
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“I’ve never tasted anything so cool and clean…They make me feel civilized,” wrote Ernest Hemingway about the Martini in A Farewell to Arms. E. B. White called the drink, “The elixir of quietude.” H.L. Mencken…
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No one deserves a morning cocktail more than all those poor souls who have somehow, despite their best collegiate intentions, ended up working in a cubicle, fighting the urge to quit right at this very…
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When summer rolls around and LA turns hot and humid—because the former desert basin of Los Angeles is, apparently, now a tropical paradise full of circling scarab beetles and regular morning thundershowers—bourbon isn’t the alcohol…
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Japanese gin, egg white, and hazelnut create a velvety texture in the Apricot Sour, which comes with the orange stone fruit “four ways.” Served in an elegant coupette, the cocktail is filled with cheek-sucking electricity…
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If you’re alone and trying to sound fancy in a fancy bar, one method is to start the argument of how to make a proper original French 75. Did the French invent the drink or…