distilled drinks
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Fuck It, Make Your Dirty Martini With Tequila
My relationship with martinis can be traced back to the bar at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, an iconic establishment that’s decorated like a French bordello. Desperate to be perceived as refined, I ordered a dirty martini with my shrimp cocktail and ribeye. Marco — the platonic ideal of an old-school bartender — asked if I…
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This Cucumber Gimlet Is a Weekend Necessity
If necessity is The Mother of Invention, then it would seem that capitalism is The Father 0f Superfluity. How many skin care lines or podcasts or artisanal gins the world needs is, I suppose, subjective and debatable, but I feel comfortable saying that the dominating motivators of invention in the modern world are fabricating problems…
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2-Ingredient Cocktail Cherries Are the Perfect Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gift
I am bad at Valentine’s Day. Or, maybe, I am very good at it. My boyfriend and I get each other gifts if the right gift presents itself — this usually takes the form of a vintage pornography poster — but neither of us force the issue. Sometimes we’ll make spaghetti. Sometimes we sous vide…
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The Ultimate Guide to Gifting a ‘Good’ Bottle of Liquor
Buying a bottle of liquor for someone when you don’t know much about that particular alcohol ranks just slightly below public speaking on the pressure scale. Liquor is a combination of history, chemistry, and culture, and the result is a baffling array of choices in any category. It’s so baffling that you can’t even rely…