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Cardinale Cocktail Recipe
Cocktails

The Next Best Negroni

The Cardinale—a 1950s-era combination of gin, Campari and dry vermouth, born in Rome—has long awaited its turn to step out of the shadows.

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  • story: Brad Thomas Parsons
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktail Nostalgia
Cocktails

Cocktail Culture Has a Nostalgia Problem

Fetishizing one brief period of history narrows the lens on an entire movement. What happens when we look beyond the gospel of Jerry Thomas?

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  • story: Scott Hocker
  • illustration: Mallory Heyer
Cadillac Margarita
Cocktails

It’s Not a Margarita, It’s a Cadillac Margarita

How the Margarita’s opulent ’80s cousin cruised into the canon of classics.

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  • story: Aaron Goldfarb
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Negroni Cocktail
Cocktails

The Negroni Has a Secret

Before it became a global symbol of sophistication, it was a lowbrow Tuscan club drink served tall.

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  • story: Andrea Strafile
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktail History 1995 - 2000
Cocktails

Where It All Began

In the first of a four-part series, Robert Simonson examines the late 1990s, a period that re-introduced the bar world to a century of lost knowledge.

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  • story: Robert Simonson
  • illustration: Raphaelle Macaron
Tiki Cocktail
Cocktails

Does Anyone Really Know What Tiki Is?

What began as Don the Beachcomber’s fantasy has evolved into a fully fledged cocktail genre, and yet no one has ever quite managed to define it.

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  • story: Chloe Frechette
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Theodore Proulx Bartender Manual
Cocktails

Who Are You, Theodore Proulx?

The Golden Age bartender wrote one of history’s most important drink manuals, yet few have ever heard of him.

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  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: The Bartender's Manual
fake cocktail history
Cocktails

Is That Classic Cocktail’s Origin Story Actually True?

If the story of a drink’s invention sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Here, seven tips on how to tell fact from fiction.

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  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Red Bull Vodka
Cocktails

The Life and Times of the Vodka Red Bull

The rare cocktail in which the mixer costs more than the spirit, "Liquid Cocaine" was, in its heyday, as controversial as it was popular

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  • story: Aaron Goldfarb
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Antrim Cognac Cocktail Recipe
Cocktails

The D List: Bringing Back the Antrim Cocktail

Bartender Selma Slabiak makes a case for this forgotten classic from the mind of “a careful, almost clinical, student of potable liquids.”

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  • story: Drew Lazor
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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The Wines of Right Now

We spoke to 150 sommeliers and retailers around the country to assemble a list of the 15 producers who represent the wine zeitgeist right now.

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