Umami Mart's Happy Hour column offers up a two-part primer on simple syrups. In this week's installment, it explores fruit-infused simple syrups and offers several recipes, including this "spring-beckoning" cocktail: If you're as ready for spring as I am, you'll enjoy this next recipe which incorporates the Meyer lemon syrup and sparkling sake for an amazingly refreshing drink I call a Sparkling Sake Lemonade. Even if you don't booze it up, the rambutan or Meyer lemon syrups would be great just mixed with a glass of seltzer. [via David Lebovitz]...
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Despite recent budget-trimming at Google, the Bay Area's main campus still stocks It's-Its. Like the name, the institutional San Francisco dessert isn't complicated—just two chocolate-dipped oatmeal cookies sandwiching your choice of ice cream (strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, and mint). Kayoko of Umami Mart appreciated the cafeteria's Indian and sushi bars but knows where it's really at....
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