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Lemon Water Doesn’t Do Anything
Water: refreshing. Lemons: also refreshing. Combine the two, and you get a drinkable liquid with sprightly flavour. That is all you get. Not a detox elixir, and not a metabolism booster. Let me repeat: when you add lemons to water, you just get lemon water. (And if you also add sugar, you get lemonade.) Lemon…
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Champagne and Fast Food Are the Perfect Pairing
At the risk of being labelled a “Champagne socialist,” I’m going to advocate for a pairing that you have perhaps not considered, a pairing that — at first blush — seems silly, almost wasteful, but makes the concept of “pairings” really click. If you’ve never had a pairing that blew you away, this is an…
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You Should Add a Little Salt to Your Next Shrub
I’m not much of a baker, so my favourite ways to “use up” a flat or two of berries usually involve eating them with un-whipped heavy cream or drawing out their juices with a whole bunch of sugar, then making a shrub (also known as “drinking vinegar”) from that vividly-covered syrup.
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Why Non-Alcoholic Beer Is Germany’s Sports Drink
I think I speak for all Americans (except Mike Pence) when I say: What the heck is the point of non-alcoholic beer? But it turns out to be popular in Europe as a sports drink. Which, to be fair, is no weirder than the way a lot of athletes here swear by chocolate milk.