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Cosmonaut

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Photo of pink Cosmonaut cocktail in a coupe glass.
Photo by Colin Price

This is Sasha Petraske's sly retort to the popularity of the Cosmopolitan, as the name coyly indicates. Indeed, the drink, piquant and slightly fruity, fills much the same purpose, tastewise, as that ubiquitous cocktail—only more so. 

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