Cocktail Parties
The stock required to provide a full bar to guests can make it cost-prohibitive--and with too many choices, your guests may stick with their standard drink orders. A more practical and economical approach is to offer one or two signature ... [... more]
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Homemade Liqueurs
With no special equipment required, homemade liqueurs are very easy to make. Most homemade liqueurs start with vodka. This spirit is an ideal base for liqueurs because it's colorless and flavorless, making it the perfect blank canvas. Try ... [... more]
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Rum's Dark Side
The story of rum is not all tiny umbrellas, cheap thrills, and challenging hangovers. It is also the story of incomparable cruelty and tremendous suffering. The Caribbean sugar industry condemned thousands of Africans to slavery in the ... [... more]
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Party People
Get recipes for some timeless standards of the cocktail playbook. Wild-River-Bloody-Mary-Mix Best Strawberry Daiquiri Gin and Tonic Best Screwdriver Ring-a-ding-ding! Rye Manhattan Margaritas [... more]
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Classic Whiskey Cocktails: American Style
Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey share much in common. They're both made from a mash of at least 51 percent corn, and they're both aged in charred oak barrels, which give them a mild, smoky-sweet character. Here are a handful of our ... [... more]
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Cocktails: The New Golden Age
Cocktails really caught fire during Prohibition, when, of course, they were ostensibly outlawed. Back in the day, speakeasies became the illegal laboratories for developing new cocktails. Over the years, modern mixologists, working with superior ... [... more]
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Classic Rum Cocktails
Pour yourself one of these rum-based cocktails and put yourself on island time. These are the required cocktails of Polynesian, tiki, or island parties. But watch out! They're so easy to drink, they can sneak up on you in a hurry and pummel you ... [... more]
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Classic Tequila Cocktails
Near the Mexican village of Tuiquila, Spanish conquistadors first introduced The perfect cocktail, margaritas are sweet with just enough acidity to keep them from being cloying. They're delicious, refreshing, and oh-so incredibly drinkable. Hey, ... [... more]
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Classic Gin Cocktails
If the martini is the king of cocktails, then gin is the crown it wears upon its head. This grain-based liquor is flavored with juniper berries, which explains its almost pinecone-like flavor. The name gin comes from the Dutch word for ... [... more]
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Printable Cookbooks: Holiday Drinks
Hosting an open house during the holidays? Try out our Top Ten Appetizers. Try out our Top Ten Beverages and get ideas for hosting a festive open house. Get recipes and entertaining tips to take you from Thanksgiving to New Year's! Eggnog, ... [... more]
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Halloween Drinks: Spooky Sipping
A big bowl of punch is the perfect prop for gory and ghastly Halloween trickery. There are lots of ways to make your party punch extra eerie! Freeze green punch in a gelatin mold along with plastic bugs, spiders and eyeballs. And place a few ... [... more]
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Cocktails: 10 Reasons to Pour
You just landed a job in Manhattan! Here's your Big Apple Martini. You just finished spring cleaning! Cleanse your palate with a Dirty Martini. You just dropped 20 pounds! Now you can fit into a Bikini Martini. It's cold and rainy, and is that ... [... more]
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