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Missed You

by Sara Faith Alterman | December 11, 2008

The best drinks I tried — and didn’t write about — this year

Besides gifts and cookies and awkward family arguments, the holiday season also tends to bring reflections. As the year draws to a close, my thoughts drift toward accomplishments I’ve made over the past 12 months, my mistakes, my regrets, my triumphs — and the cocktails I drank but never wrote about. (Shut up, it’s true.) Over the past year, I had the chance to try some truly unique drinks, and while many of them made it into this column, I couldn’t quite fit some of them (especially the quirky ones) in. Now’s my chance, with this salute to all the things I’ve loved but didn’t get around to paying attention to until right now. (Well, all the drinkable things, anyway.)

Fitting, given all the globetrotting I did in 2008, that one of my favorite cocktails of the year hails from Poland (I’m told it’s even something of a “national drink”). The Charlatka is simple and refreshing — just apple juice and vodka — but damn is it good. I’d never much considered apple juice as a mixer; I’ve always associated it with my friends’ kids. Highland Kitchen (150 Highland Avenue, Somerville, 617.625.1131) is the first place I encountered apple juice in a cocktail, and their Charlatka ($7) is perfect: crisp, cold, and smooth. This might be my new flu-season liquid medicine....

Lighten up

by Sara Faith Alterman | June 13, 2008
Put down the Negroni and have a little fun with a kitschy cocktail. We sure can take ourselves seriously in this town, can’t we? Our fashion, our food, our art, our sports— sometimes Bostonians seem so insecure in the shadow of urban behemoths like New...