A Sazerac Recipe for Cheap Dates
As usual, the Bitter Southerner is making drinking look good. We've got cocktail envy for their BS No. 3 by Atlanta bartender Paul Calvert of Paper Plane. A play on…
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Old Hickory
Maxwell Britten's interpretation of the obscure New Orleans cocktail.
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- photo: Daniel Krieger
Negroni
Like all good stories should, the one about the Negroni’s origin involves rakish Italian nobility. Most accounts credit the recipe to one Count Negroni, a swashbuckling proto-boho.
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Kingston Negroni
Within five minutes of receiving a bottle of Smith & Cross Jamaican rum NYC bartender Joaquín Simó had created this riff on the Negroni.
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Rhythm and Soul
The Rhythm and Soul is Greg Best’s composite sketch of a Manhattan and a Sazerac, as if the cocktails got into a tussle, made up and had a love child.
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Rob Roy
The first-known mentions of the Rob Roy credit New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel for the 1897 recipe, which is essentially a Manhattan made with Scotch whisky.
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Manhattan
One of the enduring heavyweights in the cocktail world, the Manhattan is something of a twist on the Old Fashioned, most likely spurred by the late-19th century rise of sweet…
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Breakfast
Akin to a Negroni or a Boulevardier, this cocktail is essentially "breakfast encapsulated," says the drink’s creator, Aaron Polsky of NYC's Amor y Amargo.
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