A good vodka is what transforms an okay cocktail into something that'll knock your socks off. So, don't shy away from this ...

Forget about standing there at your next backyard party mixing one individual cocktail after another and never getting to enjoy your own! This is one of those awesome make-it-ahead, throw-it-together ...

The Lemon Drop is a peculiar drink. It is trapped, in a way, in a purgatory of its own making, because they’re two seemingly contradictory facts about the Lemon Drop, and they’re true at the same time ...

I remember being freshly 21 and sidling up to a bar for one of the first times in my life. The options seemed endless—what should I ask for? I knew from a few negative first experiences (via my older ...

Anyone who tells you that vodka doesn’t have any flavor is just wrong. Maybe they just haven’t taken the time to sip it neat and notice the nuanced flavors or perhaps they just have preconceived ...

Cocktail writer Warren Bobrow uses the term “gartending” to describe the practice of using seasonal ingredients in cocktails. This is certainly my preferred method of mixing drinks, at least in the ...

Chefs often like to say the best dishes are when you let the natural flavors of foods shine through with little adornment. That's a smart-sounding pronouncement (kind of like saying you prefer PBS to ...