White Negroni Cocktail Recipe It’s Negroni Week! All around the world, 5000 bars and restaurants are serving up their favorite version or variant of the drink that Count Camillo Negroni (alleged) created in Florence in 1919. We’re joining in the fun, by posting our own Negroni...
Negroni Week: The Contessa Cocktail Recipe It's Negroni Week! All around the world, 5000 bars and restaurants are serving up their favorite version or variant of this beloved classic cocktail, and giving the profits to charity. We're joining in the fun, by posting our own Negroni...
Negroni Week! We were recently remarking on the proliferation of new 'holidays.' Things seem to be getting a little crazy. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Sibling Day until my sister, who's more up on these things than I, posted a...
Cocktail Recipe: The Gimlet+Bonus French Gimlet One of the keys to cocktail happiness is having a Standby Drink. Say you find yourself at a downscale hotel bar, or the 19th Hole at a golf course, or a banquet hall, or the like. Alcohol is being served,...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: White After Memorial Day Having dabbled with the Ramos Gin Fizz for New Orleans week, as we turned to summer we found ourselves wanting more of its light, bright, frothiness. Not that the original is by any means a cold weather drink, we decided...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: Jump for Joy We first encountered this drink at Puritan & Co, a short walk across the train tracks from our beloved Union Square neighborhood in Somerville. I think we only ended up going to Puritan & Co once before moving, but...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: the Greyhound Rescue Highball Week may have ended on Friday, but our enthusiasm for tall, ice-filled glasses hasn't. Maybe something that we should have mentioned during highball week is that, in case you want to try to design your own highball, the...
Summer Cocktail Recipe: Blueberry Basil Margarita #2 Flowers are blooming. Our little herb garden is growing. Fresh berries are starting to show up in the farmer's market. Summer is here. We can think of no better way to celebrate than with a margarita featuring these signs...
Summer Cocktail Recipe: Kentucky Summer Sangria We like to greet the arrival of a new season with a special sangria for the occasion. In an act of possible over-exuberance, we actually welcomed winter with three different sangria recipes. As summer comes around the corner, it's time...
Highball Week: Negroni Swizzle Cocktail Recipe We're suckers for a Negroni. We, as we've mentioned, love the way that it's finely balanced proportions invite experimentation; but we also love it in its original form, with bitter Campari and sweet and sour vermouth playing off of one...