TIP OF THE DAY: How To Create The Best Sugar Rim

Red sanding sugar makes a sweet, colorful cocktail or mocktail rimmer. Photo courtesy El Jimador Tequila.   Here’s a fun idea for Mother’s Day or any other celebration: a custom glass rimmer for cocktails or mocktails. You can buy rimmers in tins, but it’s almost as fast to make your own. We owe this tip…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Liqueur For Mom Or Dad

Home-infused clementine vodka. Photo © Hannah Kaminsky | Bittersweet Blog.   Our colleague Hannah Kaminsky of Bittersweet Blog has already made her Mother’s Day gift: which she calls climoncello (a rift on the lemon liqueur, limoncello). You’ve got more than enough time to make your own liqueur for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, in any…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Celebrate With A Spring Cocktail

Celebrate spring with a springlike cocktail. Photo courtesy Tuaca.   We’re less than 24 hours into spring and contemplating a spring cocktail this evening—to celebrate both the arrival of spring and the end of the work week. The spring equinox occurred yesterday at 12:57 p.m. It begs for a little astronomy lesson about equinoxes and…
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ENTERTAINING: A Cocktail Party For Vincent Van Gogh

If you’re inclined to entertain between St. Patrick’s Day and Easter, here’s an idea from Van Gogh Vodka: A “Starry Night” cocktail part, to celebrate the March 30th birthday of Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh Vodka has created a cocktail named for, and inspired by perhaps, one of his best-loved works, The Starry Night (De…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Irish Coffee

Even if you don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with parade-watching and partying, take the occasion to enjoy an Irish Coffee—a simply wonderful cup of coffee enhanced with Irish whiskey and whipped cream. It will be especially welcome in our neck of the woods: Mother Nature is giving us a wind chill factor in the teens,…
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