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COCKTAIL: The Hanky-Panky: 1½ oz gin, 1½ oz sweet vermouth, 2 dashes of Fernet-Branca.

With the arrival of warmer weather, my father switches over to gin and tonics. A retired diplomat, Dad retains many of the habits of his working life: Evenings, he reads the paper, nursing for hours the drink sweating onto the side table.

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Today is National Dry Martini Day, and to celebrate we're visiting Modesto for a Spanish take on the dry martini: "The Armada."

Des Moines Cityview and Johnson Brothers have teamed up to bring Des Moines the First Annual Cityview Fine Spirits Festival on Friday, June 21. The event will take place in the Court Avenue District, centered at the Court Avenue Brewing Company & Restaurant , and it will run from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are $15, and they may be purchased online ... (more)

Enjoy this classic summery gin-based drink with a blackberry finish with a recipe courtesy of Henry's Cafe Bar.

A favorite for seasonal celebrations with hints of tart lemon and zippy raspberry.

When I was growing up, my mom used to make a concoction of various fruit juices for us to drink, otherwise, she relied on Kool-Aid to quench our thirst.

The restaurant has doubled as a lab for modernist technique, from meat glues to wobbly gels, in an artistic-meets-scientific endeavor to show how far we can take our food - and how fun the journey can be.

It's standard procedure for judges at taste-offs, cook-offs and cocktails shake-offs to gracefully remark on the difficulty of reaching a decision.

Aaron Chase, the SVEDKA Vodka Cocktail Expert, visited the KCAL9 studios Tuesday to show off some creative cocktails perfect for a summer party.

It was in June of 1919 that the famed Algonquin Round Table came into being, a group of writers, editors, actors and agents who met regularly for lunch at New York's Algonquin Hotel.

A dish often associated with suburban 1970s dinner parties, the prawn cocktail has a relatively recent heritage.

Toronto's cocktail renaissance can be traced back to a number of sources, but few would argue that Barchef's Smoked Manhattan represented something of a turning point, both in terms of ambition, and skillful execution.

While we countdown the days until we can sip on cocktails on the roof of the Virgin Chicago , there's three more hotels opening up in the city, all in the next few weeks.

Today's Mixology Monday theme is cherries, a flavor that seems to go wrong more often than it goes right.

The thought of citrus and salt might bring a tasty cocktail to mind. But those ingredients can also be a cheap and natural defense against fleas.

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Finding the right spirits for a party can be daunting. Buying a stock bottle of every base spirit can be expensive, and settling on a single cocktail might keep you, the host, tied up for the entirety of the event mixing drinks.

As cocktail books go, The Savoy Cocktail Book is neither precise -- it contains numerous forgotten ingredients and botched measurements -- nor original, as it cobbled together recipes from numerous other sources without any credit whatsoever.