ZZ’s Pineapple Cocktail
At ZZ's Clam Bar in New York City, this cocktail is served in a vintage, brass pineapple, mounded with cobbled ice and garnished with a drift of aromatic chamomile powder…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Dylan + Jeni
White Negroni
The fairer Negroni made with Lillet and Suze in lieu of Campari.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Polka Dot Negroni
Salers stands in for Suze in this White Negroni riff.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Barrymore Room
A former bartender at Brooklyn’s Clover Club, Brad Farran created this variation on the bar’s namesake cocktail reverse-engineered with bourbon, lime juice, sweet vermouth and strawberry.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Pegu Club
The Pegu Club, located in Yangon, Myanmar, found itself at the center of British social life in 1920s. Its members, citizens of a bygone political era, knew the city as…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Gin Rickey
A gin-based variation on the Whiskey Fizz, which is credited to Joe Rickey, a late-19th century Missouri lobbyist.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Mojito
A descendant of the “Draque”—an old Cuban concoction of unrefined rum, cane sugar and lime juice—the Mojito was most likely invented when white rums entered the market in the mid-to-late…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Mystery Gimlet
Garret Richard's gin-based tiki drink is blended in a Hamilton Beach stand-up drink mixture, which better aerates the cocktail.
- story: Lizzie Munro
New York Sour
New York has a knack for adopting everything from fashion to food to people, and molding each into its own particular blend of outrageous, sophisticated and neurotic. Such is the…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Death in the Afternoon
The title of Hemingway’s 1932 novel Death in the Afternoon is both a direct reference to the gruesome finale of Spanish bullfights, and a more oblique one about his mediations…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger