Entries tagged with 'beverages'
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Dave Cook of Eating In Translation was tired of drinking the standard coffee, tea, and hot chocolate over and over again, so he searched the New York City area for other hot drinks to get him through the winter. His list of 18 wintertime drinks hailing from a wide variety of cuisines should keep your taste buds toasty without tiring them out....
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Dedicated lovers of Scotch whisky may wish to look the other way right now. In his "Shaken and Stirred" column in Sunday’s New York Times, Jonathan Miles addresses one of the touchiest topics in mixology: the crafting of cocktails using single-malt Scotch. Miles writes, “As a Scottish proverb says: ‘There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whiskey.’ But we New Yorkers are islanders, not Highlanders, and adulteration befits us.” Outraged purists aside, Scotch is already a very difficult spirit to mix. A handful of cocktails achieve success with blended Scotch—the Rob Roy, Cameron’s Kick and Blood and Sand among them—but these victories are badly overshadowed by the failures. These losses can be seen...
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Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb is another addition to the shelf of orange spirits, but one that distinguishes itself in a couple of ways. While most orange-flavored liqueurs are based on neutral spirits or brandy, Creole Shrubb uses
rhum agricole, a distinctive type of rum from Martinique that is made from sugar-cane juice rather than molasses, the base material for most other rums.
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Inside a Sheetz gas station on U.S. Route 29 in Virginia sat an almighty F'Real shake-maker. Something like a DIY malt shop from the future, it lets you pick from a mini-freezer of ice cream cups and thickness settings. After dropping my vanilla into the sleek blue machine and choosing extra-thick, the cup levitated to a shake-making heaven. Some bzzt noises later, and it dropped back down to our mortal world.
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At least one barista at Starbucks is incensed about having to refer to drinks as "skinny," the term given to drinks made with sugar-free syrup, non-fat milk, and no whipped cream. She supports her stance by saying that the term is politically incorrect, confusing to customers, discriminating, and has a negative effect on people's self esteem. [via Gothamist]...
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That is one buzzed-looking robot. He probably drank too many of Never Bashful With Butter's Robot Graveyards—a mix of six juices, two sodas, and a shot of rum. [via Tastespotting]...
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In today’s New York Times, Michael S. Sanders explores one corner of an often neglected world of spirits: Armagnac. Widely enjoyed in Gascony and largely an afterthought almost everywhere else, Armagnac is Cognac’s less-famous sibling. With its distinctive robust flavor, Armagnac is often thought of as the country bumpkin cousin to the more sophisticated Cognac. Quoting Marc Darroze, whose family has been buying some of the best vintage Armagnac from French farmers and selling it worldwide for more than 50 years, Sanders writes, “If Cognac is feminine, Armagnac is masculine, dense, powerful, individualistic, reeking of terroir.” Where Cognac can be sweet and fruity, Armagnac can be rich and earthy, a close relative with its own inimitable character. More than 500...
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Does Brawndo really have what plants crave? Reading For Dummies plans to find out by conducting an experiment where two tomato plants will be fed carefully measured amounts of water and electrolyte-enhanced Brawndo for three weeks, or until one of them dies. Whichever comes first. Watch the experiment's progress through the magic of time lapse photography!...
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“A merry Christmas, Bob!” said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. “A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss our affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!” A Christmas Carol regularly gets trotted out this time of year (or DVDs of Scrooge McDuck cartoons do, anyway), to mark the holiday with Dickens’ tale of redemption. While Tiny Tim’s treacly “God bless us, every one!” is enough to...
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The holiday season is hot cocoa/hot chocolate season no matter where you live, so as a public service we've endeavored to taste every hot cocoa and hot chocolate we could find at a reasonable price.
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