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Celery Shrub
Inspired by Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda, a fixture in NYC delis, this celery shrub is savory and refreshing.
Carrot-Ginger Shrub
Pair this sweet, slightly spicy carrot-ginger shrub with vodka or gin, or use it in salad dressing with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Blueberry-Lavender Shrub
Floral and fruity, with just the right amount of tang, this blueberry-lavender shrub is your new summer fave.
29 Best Nonalcoholic Drinks (Just Don’t Call Them Mocktails, Please)
Alcohol-free cocktails aren’t just for Dry January.
When Life Gives You Leftover Wine, Make Vinegar
Making your own custom vinegar is as easy as opening a bottle of wine—and not drinking all of it.
Homemade Wine Vinegar
This homemade vinegar recipe works with any type of wine—red, white, rosé, or a mix if you find yourself with open bottles after a party.
How to Calculate the Strength of Any Cocktail
You can tell how much alcohol is in a beer by looking at the number on the can. But how do you know how strong a drink is when it’s made of a handful of ingredients that are stirred or shaken with ice?
The Epicurious Cocktail ABV Calculator
This calculator below will tell you the ABV—that is, the proportion of pure alcohol a drink contains—of whatever you are sipping.
11 Summer Vodka Drinks to Keep You Refreshed
Because no one wants a hot martini.
How to Make Raspberry Syrup, the Original Summer Grenadine
These four refreshing drinks are just the beginning of what you can shake up with fresh raspberry syrup—the original summer grenadine.
Redheaded Saint
A compelling combination of mezcal, tequila, fresh lime, ginger beer, and raspberry syrup.
Clover Club
While the Clover Club cocktail may have originated in the 1890s at the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, where the social organization that lends the drinks its name would carouse, it’s very much a drink of the 20th century. It was then that the famously pink drink became a cultural phenomenon beyond a small set of Philly-area lawyers and business folk. It arrived in New York perhaps thanks to hotelier George Boldt, who operated both the Bellevue and the new Waldorf-Astoria. His other culinary cla.…
Raspberry Syrup
Raspberry syrup appears over and over in some of the most influential historic cocktail books.
Applejack Fix
This is a perfect sipper for a warm day. The boozy sour is tempered by lots of ice and brightened by tart and tender raspberry.
Negima (Grilled Chicken Skewers With Green Onion)
Negima—chicken placed alternately on a skewer with green onion or scallion—is one of the most popular yakitori dishes.
Cosmopolitan Cocktail
To make this pretty pink drink, remember this mnemonic device: Very Cute Little Cocktail. That’s V for vodka, C for Cointreau, L for lime, and another C for cranberry.
Yardbird’s Yuzu-and-Miso-Marinated Chicken Tender Yakitori
Tender pieces of chicken fillet (a.k.a. chicken tenders) are marinated in miso, yuzu zest, mirin, and sake for a delicate sweet-salty flavor.
Classic Daiquiri
Using just three ingredients—light rum, fresh lime, and simple syrup—this cocktail shows how good the classics can be.
Sasami no Ume-shiso (Grilled Chicken Tenders With Ume and Shiso)
Chicken tenders, which are cut from the breast, are grilled or broiled on bamboo skewers.
Miso-Marinated Salmon
This lightly miso-marinated salmon is served with a bright green spinach sauce underneath.