While not made with honey, they evoke a gourmet version of those sesame-honey candies—but they’re soft and pose no harm to dental work. They’re flat bars, the size of a chocolate bar, and you can devour one whole or break off a piece at a time. The sesame seeds and flax seeds provide much more than texture, flavor, lots of fiber and heart-healthy linolenic acid and omega-3s;* they require a lot of chewing, so the snack lasts longer. And, in the summer heat, the bars don’t melt like chocolate or go gooey like caramel.

While Bumble Bars call themselves energy bars, they don’t stack up nutritionally the way a Balance Bar, Clif Bar or Lara Bar will. Those bars have twice the protein and half the fat, and are formulated for energy. We’d call it a confection—a healthy candy. In fact, the world’s first candies were seeds, nuts and fruits mixed with honey. Bumble Bars are descendants of those simple, whole foods. They’re gluten-free, wheat- and dairy-free and vegan, made of certified organic good stuff and sweetened with brown rice syrup and evaporated cane juice. And it’s not easy to tire of them, given 12 delicious flavors: Awesome Apricot, Chai With Almonds, Chocolate Cherry, Chocolate Crisp, Chunky Cherry, Lushus Lemon, Original (peanut and cinnamon), Original with Almond, Original With Cashew, Original With Hazelnut, Original With Mixed Nuts and Tasty Tropical.

Add tangy yuzu juice to your next
daiquirí for an new twist on a classic. You’ll
need to garnish with lime, though: It’s
tough to find fresh yuzu.

July 19th is National Daiquirí Day. While we have a traditional Daiquirí recipe below, the Yuzu Daiquirí is poised to be a new favorite. Buy yuzu juice (an Asian citrus) at your specialty food store and make this recipe, courtesy of Riingo restaurant in New York City.

If you don’t know yuzu, read our article. It’s one of our favorite flavors.

YUZU DAIQUIRI RECIPE

Ingredients

Preparation

1. MUDDLE the mint, raspberries, sugar, simple syrup and yuzu juice in a mixing glass.

2. ADD ice and rum and shake vigorously.

3. STRAIN into a martini glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint and serve.
CLASSIC DAIQUIRÍ RECIPE

To make a classic Daiquirí, mix 1-1/2 ounces light rum, 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice and 1 teaspoon powdered or granulated sugar. Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass, or pour into an ice-filled collins glass.

There are many variations on the Daiquirí recipe which incorporate fruit, fruit juice or liqueur. One of our favorites uses 2 tablespoons of Triple Sec or other orange liqueur instead of the sugar.
 
DAIQUIRí HISTORY

A Daiquirí (pronounced DAK-uh-ree in English, but die-kee-REE in the native Taíno language) is a combination of rum, lime juice and sugar or other sweetener (we use agave nectar). It was invented around 1900 at the El Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, by a group of American mining engineers. Rum, lime and sugar were plentiful. The original cocktail was served in a collins glass with cracked ice, with each of the ingredients poured over the ice. It later evolved into a shaker drink.

The name came from an iron mine in near Santiago, Cuba (there’s also a beach there called Daiquirí).

There are numerous Daiquirí variations, including the Yuzu Daiquirí above. The popular Caipirinha is a daquirí made using cachaça instead of rum. Cachaça, a Brazilian “cousin” to rum, is made from sugar cane juice. Rum is distilled from molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process.

Find more cocktail recipes in our Cocktails & Spirits Section.