Laurel Miller is a food, spirits and travel writer and the associate editor of Edible Monterey Bay.
A former cooking teacher, she recently relocated from Austin back to her native California to be closer to the state’s regenerative farms and ranches and the best burritos on earth. She prefers whiskey to wine.

“Like Strawberry Quik on Acid”
Fermented strawberry Aperol and koji rice orgeat are the building blocks of a high-concept, low-tech cocktail at Santa Monica’s Rustic Canyon.
- story: Laurel Miller
- photo: Emily Ferretti