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
Painful Punch
A sangria-inspired punch by California bartender Scott Beattie.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Sara Remington
Negroni
Most accounts credit this classic recipe to one Count Negroni, a swashbuckling proto-boho.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Paddington
A Hemingway Daiquiri variation made with orange marmalade, Paddington Bear’s treat of choice.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
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Mint Julep
When done up properly, the Mint Julep can be a fussy drink—all crushed ice and fancy silver cup—which is exactly why it might be surprising that it packs such a…
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Bee’s Knees
A twist on the Gin Sour, this mix of gin, honey and lemon is thought to have bubbled up during Prohibition, when questionable bootlegged spirits begged to be masked.
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger