A few years ago, I was living in another part of the world without ready access to certain creature comforts, like good rum, limes and liqueurs. This called for a degree of ingenuity and ...

Orgeat is something I only found out about in my 30s, about the time when I could confidently afford to go to a fancy cocktail bar and have that confidence dashed by not understanding ingredients on ...

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, consider serving dessert cocktails made with orgeat. Or-what? Orgeat (pronounced or-zhat) is a French almond syrup, an essential ingredient in the Mai Tai as well as the classic ...

Have you ever smelled amaretto? Orgeat syrup—that strange, stray, hard-to-pronounce bottle languishing in certain bars and cafes—is similar to the almond liqueur, minus the alcohol burn and with bonus ...

WE ARE IN EUROPE, and the world is lit only by fire. For many, the local drinking water is suspect, having been mucked up by the inevitable waste of adjacent human activities such as tanning hides and ...