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Zombie cocktail

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The Zombie was invented by Donn Beach, of Hollywood’s Don the Beachcomber restaurants, in the late 1930s. This vintage cocktail is called Zombie because that’s what it can turn its drinker into. It’s a high-octane cocktail full of delicious fruit juices that make you feel like you’re downing sophisticated candy. But that deliciousness hides quite ... Read the full article →

Candy Cane

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The Candy Cane is a fabulous holiday dessert drink. Of course, you don’t have to save it for dessert – it’s just deliciously sweet enough that you could. With a name like Candy Cane, you might expect this cocktail to be peppermint flavored, and it certainly does have that element. But there’s so much more: ... Read the full article →

Santa Shot

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The Santa Shot is a gorgeous little red and green layered shot that tastes like a candy cane. It’s Christmas ascetics combined with Christmas flavors, and it packs plenty of Christmas spirit. You might even want to leave one out for Santa with his cookies. This is a great treat for parties, especially as an ... Read the full article →

Betsie Temple

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The Betsie Temple tastes like candy. Pineapple juice, four freakin’ ounces of coconut rum, a little grenadine and some cherries on top. Usually drinks that taste like candy are a little weak, but once in a while, they’re so not. Once in a while, they’re like wolves in sheep’s clothing: deceptively palatable infiltrators capable of ... Read the full article →

Nagshead Lemonade

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The Nagshead Lemonade cocktail is very drinkable, but it’s not for kiddies: it uses gin. Anytime a cocktail involves gin, it’s acquired taste time. Refined palate time. Whatever it is, a drink like this is not so much for the Jack and Coke set. That said, the Nagshead Lemonade is not a difficult drink to ... Read the full article →

Jack Rose

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The Jack Rose is a classic cocktail popular in the the 1920s and ’30s. It was referenced in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises in 1926, but you need not associate it with bleak romance. The Jack Rose is grown-up but yummy – you don’t need to acquire a taste for it. It’s sweet and ... Read the full article →

Strawberry Sunrise

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The Strawberry Sunrise is a dessert cocktail.  You can certainly drink it as an aperitif or with a meal or by itself, but if you’ve got a hankering for sweets, this drink will take care of it. No cheesecake necessary. The Creme de Fraises is a very sweet and powerfully flavored strawberry liqueur. Combined with ... Read the full article →

Peking

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The Peking cocktail isn’t very well-known. It’s a moderately strong cocktail served in a martini glass. The Peking got its name from its hint of a mysterious, almost musky flavor that’s hard to place: that’s the Pernod, a liquor flavored with licorice and other herbs. You only use one-fourth of an ounce of it, so ... Read the full article →

Blossom

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The Blossom is a very straightforward cocktail with only three ingredients. It’s extremely similar to its cousin, the Orange Blossom, except the ratios change and it always includes grenadine rather than simple syrup. While the Orange Blossom is great for breakfast, because it’s low on alcohol and has four ounces of orange juice, the Blossom ... Read the full article →

Tequila Sunrise

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The Tequila Sunrise is another orange juice based cocktail, like the Screwdriver, the Orange Blossom and the Harvey Wallbanger. The long-standing appeal of these drinks is actually the orange juice – it hydrates your body and provides Vitamin C to prevent or reduce hangover effects, but you still get your alcohol kick, too. They’re a ... Read the full article →

Orange Blossom

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The Orange Blossom is a classic Prohibition-era cocktail. It’s one of those cocktails with the power to make you feel like it’s a sunny day on the beach, wherever you are and whatever the weather’s like. The flavor is orange juice with just a hint of gin. Most recipes call for gomme syrup as the ... Read the full article →

Fourth of July

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Whether or not you celebrate U.S. Independence Day today, this is a fun drink. This gorgeous layered shooter cocktail is called the Fourth of July. It’s pictured here with vodka on top, but you can also layer cream on top for a true white effect. (Here’s how to pour a layered cocktail.) The overall flavor ... Read the full article →

Pink Lady

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The Pink Lady was popular in the 1950s. It’s pink and fluffy with egg froth on the top, so on first sight you might expect it to be cloyingly sweet, but it’s actually drier than most modern cocktails. The classic recipe just uses gin, grenadine, cream and an egg white, but one of the variations ... Read the full article →

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