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Fall For It: Local Bartenders Think Seasonal

by Ruth Tobias | October 06, 2008

On a chilly November night two years ago, an old friend and I slid into a booth in a quiet, candlelit New York bar for what was to be a quick drink and a chat. Several hours later, we slid out, in tears and in love — drunk on the potion that was hot buttered rum.

Thus owing my whole sex life to a winter warmer, I tend to look rather sentimentally forward to cold snaps.

So like a Cherokee doing a rain dance in full headdress, I’ve been working frantically to hasten the season by beseeching the gods — or at least some local mixologists — to send cocktails: rich, dark, tummy-tingling cocktails. And lo, they have heard my calls and promised to deliver. Though not all the concoctions they’re crafting are toddies, all share dear alcohol’s wondrous ability to “increase[] the volume of warm blood in the skin” and thereby produce a “feeling of warmth,” as authors Haven Emerson and Gerald N. Grob put it in Alcohol and Man: The Effects of Alcohol on Man in Health and Disease. That may not sound so romantic in the flush of Indian summer, but read on — the scoops I got should set your capillaries stirring. ...

Sour mix: Sweet and tart are a marriage made in cocktail heaven

by Sara Faith Alterman | March 24, 2008
PUCKER UP, sweetheart. Actually, make that pucker up, sweettart — because one sip of the fruity, tangy cocktails that are popping up on your favorite drink lists and your lips will purse into a happy pout. As kids, we adored Sour Patch Kids and Smarties...