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Ingredient – Maraschino Cherries
The garnish of choice for a Manhattan is a Maraschino cherry. That word probably brings images of bright red, extremely sweet fruits floating up in your consciousness. But, like many things in the cocktail world, it hasn’t always been that way. Maraschino (pronounced Mara-skee-no) cherries were originally produced by macerating Marasca in Maraschino liqueur. Introduced…
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Ingredient – Bitters
One of the best explanations I’ve heard is that bitters are like spices for cocktails. You would never cook certain dishes without spices and the same is true of some cocktails and their bitters. Old timers only considered drinks with bitters to be true cocktails. The quote on our Mission page sums it up nicely. …
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The Manhattan
The Manhattan is like the Martini’s deeper more complex brother. Said to have been created in the 1860’s by a bartender named Black at a bar on Broadway, the drink is a simple combination of Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth and Bitters. This drink is also known by some as a drinking man’s cocktail and the king…
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The Martini – An Elegant Drink To Be Sure
Whether you’re drinking it with classic Gin, or the favored Vodka, dirty, extra dirty, with olives, with a twist, with orange bitters or completely unadulterated one thing is for sure, you feel more sophisticated while drinking this elegant drink. The Martini is a dirnk that has spawned an entire generation of cocktail drinkers. Whether its…
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Cocktail Tools – Oxo Zester
As you may have gathered from my previous posts I’m a fan of Oxo kitchen tools. So, when I needed a citrus zester/channel knife I naturally turned to Oxo. I picked up the zester you see at the left and I’d very much like to give it a glowing review. But…I can’t. When I first…