Category: Cocktails & Spirits

ACADEMY AWARDS: A Cocktail For Your Oscar Food

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Starfruit = star cocktail = Academy Awards fare. Photo courtesy Moet et Chandon. A week from today, you’ll probably be watching the Academy Awards. What will you be drinking? While you’re watching the stars, nibble on a few with The Starlet cocktail. It uses star fruit to give star quality to any drink. The recipe…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Chocolate Tequila Cupid Cocktail

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Let chocolate and tequila be your cupid. Photo courtesy Sauza Tequila.   If you’re not sharing the evening with someone special, make yourself a special comfort cocktail. Sauza Tequila suggests this chocolate tequila drink. CHOCOLATE TEQUILA CUPID RECIPE Ingredients 3 parts chocolate milk (store bought or homemade) 1 part silver tequila 1 part strawberry purée…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Champagne Cocktail

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Rosy and delicious: the Secret CrushChampagne cocktail. Photo courtesyMacao Trading Co.   Here’s a Valentine’s Day version of a Champagne Cocktail. Called a Secret Crush, it’s a rosy color from the addition of grenadine—a red syrup originally made from pomegranate juice or cherry juice, and sugar. (Grenade is the French word for pomegranate as well…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Love Potion No. 299 Cocktail

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It’s been a long time since The Clovers bought a bottle of Love Potion No. 9 to solve their romantic problems. If you listen to the ingredients in the 1959 song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, you’ll far prefer this 2011 recipe for Love Potion No. 299. (Also check out the 1963 cover by…
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