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Vermouth’s Rebirth

By Emilia | Published: November 4, 2013

Looks like vermouth is gaining steam in the cocktail world across the pond, via Independent UK.

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Sawyer

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 25, 2013

The Sawyer. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

The Sawyer. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

Casting about for a cocktail high in bitters to make use of some of my own personal blend, and one with gin, because that's what the evening wanted, I happened on this distinctive cocktail, so high in bitters it can clearly fill in for a post-prandial digestif. It was created by Don Lee several years ago at Ssäm Bar in NYC, inspired by Chef Wylie Dufresne, and named for that chef's daughter. Served to the writer Brad Parsons, it wound up in Parsons's bitters book. I love bitters for the complexity they bring to a drink, this one very much in the sour category with its dose of fresh lime juice. It's become one of my favorite cocktails. If you ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Traverse City Zinger Returns

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 18, 2013

The TC Zinger. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

The TC Zinger. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

I'm presumably in Stonington, Maine, cutting pig and rejoicing in the glories of the hog with Charcuterie pal and co-author Brian Polcyn, to benefit the Island Culinary & Ecological Center. (Join us if you're anywhere near Stonington! Details here.) From Maine we return to wonderful Traverse City and Pigstock, so I'm reposting this splendid cocktail made from gin and preserved Michigan cherries (don't have any on hand? improvise!—a gin sour with preserved fruit). —MR A PR firm sent me a bottle of Nolet’s gin, which I was happy to taste (and used in The Southside), but when I was researching the gin I came across a Cocktail Enthusiast review of the gin, and ...

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Friday Cocktail: The Old-Fashioned
w/Homemade Bitters

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 11, 2013

Homemade bitters. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

Ingredients for homemade bitters: the woody shreds are Angelica root, the bitter component, along with aromatics, star anise, pepper, cloves, allspice. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

The woody shreds are Angelica root, the bitter component, along with aromatics, star anise, pepper, cloves, allspice

Straining bitters after 1 month's maceration. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Bitters, strained.

Bitters, strained.

I love bitters for the complexity they bring to any drink, or situation in life for that matter, and I use them with a heavy hand in cocktails. One of my favorite cocktails is the Old-Fashioned (see below), so simple, so satisfying: whiskey, sugar, bitters. But what exactly are bitters? You don't really know until you ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Derby

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: October 4, 2013

Derby cocktail. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Derby cocktail. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

When I opened to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's wonderful and expanded food section, I was delighted to find a handful of bartenders offering cocktails. The Derby, offered by Lindsey Hawes, who mixes drinks at The Willeyville in the Cleveland Flats, caught my eye (here she is making another fave of mine, The Dark & Stormy). The Derby  caught my eye for its straightforwardness and lack of frou. I immediately thought of the Brown Derby, a restaurant chain that flourished here in the 1970s, where I first encountered what was called a salad bar, back in the pre-sneeze guard days (God, how I long for the simpler times when people didn't freak out about bacteria and rub sanitizing gel on their hands every five ...

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