Tag: Drinks

Water Bath Canned Tomato Juice

Serve this juice over ice for a refreshing beverage, or use it as the base for Bloody Marys, soups, simmer sauces, or even chili. For safe canning, you must acidify each canned jar with the proper amount of either bottled lemon juice or citric acid. If you’re not familiar with water bath canning, you can…


Slow Summer Sipping: Fine Aged Rums That Deserve More Than a Cocktail

Any old rum might be fine for a fruity summer cocktail, but some rums are like fine whiskey: You really want to think twice about mixing them. Such sipping rums are aged and often blended from rums aged for different lengths of time or in different conditions, taking on great character. Use a snifter, let…


Tequilas to Savor: Carefully Crafted Spirits Meant to be Sipped Straight

Pop culture has done a disservice to tequila, from the idea that one lines up shots with lime wedges and salt to the myth of worms in the bottle (that was mezcal, not tequila, and a marketing gag at best). But tequila-making is an art, and its production has strict guidelines both in ingredients and…


Anatomy of a Classic Cocktail: The Mai Tai

In 1934, Ernest Gantt, aka Donn Beach, opened his first Tiki bar in California. Victor Bergeron, aka Trader Vic—as Tiki joint owners apparently don’t tend to use their real names—soon opened his first as well. The purportedly Polynesian theme caught on. Bergeron, who created his cocktail menu himself, came up with the mai tai in…


Refresh and Restore With the Original American Energy Drink

When Benjamin Morrell dedicated his memoir to the Secretary of the United States Navy, he made a curious recommendation. The early 19th-century captain recommended that all long-voyage ships be provisioned with plenty of molasses and vinegar. Captain Morrell, though reputedly a teller of tall tales, certainly knew how to provision ships for success. His travels…


Little-Known Wine Facts

Most people who purchase wine regularly know what the basic rules are about how to consume it and store it along with other supposedly widely known “facts.” But in reality, a number of tips that have been passed down through oral tradition have nothing to do with the way wine really ought to be treated….


A Cool Cup of Joe: Around the World in Iced Coffee

Iced coffee. Like avocado toast, do we really need a recipe? Brew coffee. Add ice. Maybe sugar. Drink. True enough, but much like the toast, there can be so many other ways of putting it together. Here are just a few takes on the cool cup of Joe from other parts of the world. The…


Strawberries Are the Stars of the Season

By Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch     Now, right now, strawberries are their strawberriest. Ripe, luscious and dripping with juice, strawberries are nature’s way of welcoming us back to another bountiful season of planting and harvesting. They are like a little gift — an amuse bouche, if you will — to thank us for our…


Anatomy of a Classic Cocktail: The Painkiller

If you like piña coladas—this is even better. Swapping orange juice in for the lime and sprinkling a bit of nutmeg, you end up with a dangerously drinkable Caribbean cocktail called a Painkiller. Don’t bother with the little umbrella; it only gets in the way. I first learned to make them while helping out at…


5 Simple Drinks to Clear Acne and Inflammation, Boost Immune System

Inflammation within our bodies is the root cause of many frustrating skin conditions, including acne, eczema, and dermatitis! So to really understand what role different food ingredients can play, today Fel shares with you her favorite natural drinks to really help clear the skin and get rid of acne and blemishes from the inside out!…