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Gardening 101: Salad Days, Cauliflower Nights
The garden is in harvest mode, and maybe you’re sick of weeding. But guess what? It’s time to plant again for fall.
08.31.09
- Keywords
- gardening 101,
- produce,
- summer,
- vegetables,
- nanette maxim
food + cooking
Desperately Seeking Potato Salad
When your only real “family recipes” tend to involve cans of crushed pineapple, this perfect picnic dish is a rare gem worth hunting down.
08.26.09
- Keywords
- potatoes,
- salads,
- summer,
- marisa robertson-textor
food + cooking
How to Pick Wild Mushrooms
All wild fungi possess a bit of sorcery, but telling the difference between the evil and the delicious is, of course, the trick.
08.19.09
- Keywords
- foraging,
- culinary culture,
- summer,
- mushrooms,
- ian knauer
recipes
Bourbon Sloe Gin Cocktail
A blender drink unlike any other, and an image-changer for sloe gin: It’s not just for embarrassingly named cocktails.
August 1981
recipes
“Two-Dollar Cocktail”
Essentially a Sidecar without the lemon juice, but a fine cocktail in its own right.
July 1992
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- summer,
- brandy,
- curacao
recipes
Gold Cadillac
A surprisingly good after-dinner drink popular in the ’80s, particularly in El Dorado, California.
August 1981
recipes
Mint Julep
Of course the bourbon matters, but there are few drinks where the ice is so critical.
May 1983
recipes
My Fair Lady the Empress
This cocktail is surprisingly tropical given that it originated in Victoria, British Columbia.
July 1983
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- summer,
- rum,
- amaretto,
- fruit
recipes
Royal Rickey
This cocktail is a must for the berry lover.
August 1983
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- summer,
- gin,
- vermouth,
- beverages
