To make this delicious raspberry schnapps you’ll need to track down the raspberry flavoring syrup used in coffeehouses with the brand name Torani. A few of the more popular flavors, raspberry included, are now available in most supermarkets. 1 cup very hot water cup sugar 1 cup 80-proof vodka ½ cup Torani raspberry flavoring syrup [...]
Kahlúa may market itself as the coffee liqueur developed in Mexico, but many believe the brand originated in Turkey. Looking at the label, we can still see an Arabic archway under which a sombrero-wearing man rests. Old labels of the brand show this man wearing a turban and smoking a pipe. Even the name Kahlúa [...]
Liqueur-making dates back to somewhere around 900 A.D., when Arabs and European monks had to do something to break up the boredom of living in 900 A.D. Think about it: no DVDs, no video games, no extreme sports on ESPN2. These guys had nothing better to do than spend their time crafting the perfect beverage [...]
With strawberry ice cream topping, banana, and crumbled Vienna Fingers you can’t go wrong. 1 ripe banana 2 Vienna Fingers cookies 2½ cups vanilla ice cream ¼ cup milk ¼ cup strawberry topping 1. Before you start to make this clone, freeze a medium glass or ceramic bowl in the freezer for at least 30 [...]
It’s Dairy Queen’s most successful product ever. Over 175 million Blizzards were sold in the year following the product’s debut in 1985. Such a sales phenomenon was the new creation that other fast food chains invented their own versions of the soft-serve ice cream treats with mixed in chunks of cookies and candies and fruit. [...]
Here’s the signature drink from the chain that’s reviving the drive-in burger joint, just like a scene out of American Graffiti or Happy Days. It was in 1953 that Troy Smith obtained the parcel of land in Shawnee, Oklahoma, that was big enough to fit the new steakhouse and root beer stand that was his [...]
Any Sonic Drive-In regular knows the four or five unique fountain drink favorites on the menu. There’s the Limeade, the Diet Limeade, Strawberry Limeade, and, of course, the Cherry Limeade. But that bright blue stuff called Ocean Water has become a recent favorite for anyone who digs the taste of coconut—it’s like a pina colada [...]
When America figured out how to mix carbon dioxide gas with water in the early 1800s a monumental industry was born. The fizzy fluid, invented to clone carbonated water found in natural springs, was originally thought to be a magical curative for a variety of ailments ranging from indigestion to arthritis. Ambitious pharmacists looking to [...]
To make a milk shake you must use ice cream. I don’t care what they say in Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts where a milk shake is just milk shaken up with flavored syrup. To those folks, when you add ice cream it’s called a cabinet. And I don’t care what they say in [...]
While Champagne and other sparkling wines are perfect on their own, especially when toasting those special occasions, they also pair well with other carefully chosen ingredients. Fizzy, nonalcoholic mixers like ginger ale or ginger beer turn a pour of vodka into a cocktail. It’s up to you whether to use that special bottle of French [...]
T his cocktail was a 1900s invention of the Pegu Club in the then British colony of Burma. When Audrey Saunders opened her own smashing bar in New York in 2005 and named it the Pegu Club, we thought we had better try that drink. We marveled at Audrey’s deft hand in remaking New York’s [...]
F ollow me to Nick’s” is a saying familiar to New Orleanians of all ages. Nick Castrogiovanni’s Big Train Bar was a serious dive even by New Orleans standards. Each successive generation, including ours, thought they discovered it, and were always surprised to learn that their parents had been there before them. We grew up [...]
