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It’s easy add a hit of extra flavor to lemon-ade, from lavender to jalapeño. Photo courtesy The Great Pepper Cookbook by Melissa’s Produce. August 20th is National Lemonade Day. If the only lemonade you drink comes from a bottle, you’ve never experienced real lemonade. Bottled drinks are not only pasteurized, but typically use reconstituted…
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For two years we’ve had our eye on Blossom Water, an innovative beverage in a crowded field that has not yet gotten the distribution we think it deserves. We keep checking the store locator, hoping for something near us. We drink it at the trade show where we first discovered it; and we do buy…
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A melon tap turns any large, seedless watermelon into an punch bowl, ideal for filling with watermelon-based beverages. Simply hollow out the melon, insert the tap and fill it with your beverage of choice. In addition to a refreshing drink, you give guests the fun of dispensing their drinks from a watermelon. (In the fall,…
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For National Watermelon Day, August 3rd, try a salted watermelon milkshake. Salt with watermelon? Actually, as a pinch of salt helps most foods, it’s an old trick to bring out more flavor (here, sweetness) in the watermelon. This recipe is courtesy of The Milk Shake Factory in Pittsburgh. It requires watermelon sorbet; but if you…
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[1] Club soda with a slice of blood orange (photo © Polar Seltzer). [2] A “sangria soda” of Sprite and peaches (photo courtesy Melissa’s). [3] A Victorian soda siphon, called a seltzogene or gasogene (photo Sobebunny | Wikipedia). [4] Bottlers branded their siphons with their names and graphics. Here are more antique soda siphons (photo…
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