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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Donna Paloma

A freshly made paloma. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

A freshly made Paloma. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

I've written before in the depths of winter that now is grapefruit season and grapefruits were my first realization that food was in fact seasonal. It was 1989 and I'd grown up in a country where I could buy pretty much anything I knew about all year long and this was the natural way of the world. I'd fallen in love with Donna, who was a photographer for the Palm Beach Daily News, but I kept long-held plans and left her to travel Africa and Asia, only to find myself 10 weeks later on the porch of an American expatriate living in Ouagadougou. A monkey jumped onto my lap, and I thought What the hell am I doing in Ouagadougou when ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: La Paloma

The refreshing Paloma: tequila, lime, grapefruit soda/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

I had my first Paloma in Ixtapa, Mexico, during a blog seminar I was invited to and fell in love with it. I think I had ninety-five before the week was out. By the end of the evening I couldn’t even remember the name. (Though I remember Garrett becomes very talkative after about seven or eight.) I still see the Mexican bartender carefully saying, PAH-LOW-MA to me. I would repeat as best I could, but he could see he’d be repeating himself in a half hour. Now, of course, is not the time to have ninety-five Palomas but one solid one for the cocktail hour. It is HOT, and these are REFRESHING! In fact, exactly as refreshing as the above example looks in Donna’s lovely photo. The ...

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