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Carrot-Ginger Shrub

Pair this sweet, slightly spicy carrot-ginger shrub with vodka or gin, or use it in salad dressing with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Blueberry-Lavender Shrub

Floral and fruity, with just the right amount of tang, this blueberry-lavender shrub is your new summer fave.

When Life Gives You Leftover Wine, Make Vinegar

Making your own custom vinegar is as easy as opening a bottle of wine—and not drinking all of it.

Homemade Wine Vinegar

This homemade vinegar recipe works with any type of wine—red, white, rosé, or a mix if you find yourself with open bottles after a party.

How to Calculate the Strength of Any Cocktail

You can tell how much alcohol is in a beer by looking at the number on the can. But how do you know how strong a drink is when it’s made of a handful of ingredients that are stirred or shaken with ice?

The Epicurious Cocktail ABV Calculator

This calculator below will tell you the ABV—that is, the proportion of pure alcohol a drink contains—of whatever you are sipping.

How to Make Raspberry Syrup, the Original Summer Grenadine

These four refreshing drinks are just the beginning of what you can shake up with fresh raspberry syrup—the original summer grenadine.

Redheaded Saint

A compelling combination of mezcal, tequila, fresh lime, ginger beer, and raspberry syrup.

Applejack Fix

This is a perfect sipper for a warm day. The boozy sour is tempered by lots of ice and brightened by tart and tender raspberry.

Raspberry Syrup

Raspberry syrup appears over and over in some of the most influential historic cocktail books. 

Clover Club

While the Clover Club cocktail may have originated in the 1890s at the Bellevue Hotel in Philadelphia, where the social organization that lends the drinks its name would carouse, it’s very much a drink of the 20th century. It was then that the famously pink drink became a cultural phenomenon beyond a small set of Philly-area lawyers and business folk. It arrived in New York perhaps thanks to hotelier George Boldt, who operated both the Bellevue and the new Waldorf-Astoria. His other culinary cla.…

Negima (Grilled Chicken Skewers With Green Onion)

Negima—chicken placed alternately on a skewer with green onion or scallion—is one of the most popular yakitori dishes.

Cosmopolitan Cocktail

To make this pretty pink drink, remember this mnemonic device: Very Cute Little Cocktail. That’s V for vodka, C for Cointreau, L for lime, and another C for cranberry.

Yardbird’s Yuzu-and-Miso-Marinated Chicken Tender Yakitori

Tender pieces of chicken fillet (a.k.a. chicken tenders) are marinated in miso, yuzu zest, mirin, and sake for a delicate sweet-salty flavor.

Classic Daiquiri

Using just three ingredients—light rum, fresh lime, and simple syrup—this cocktail shows how good the classics can be.

Sasami no Ume-shiso (Grilled Chicken Tenders With Ume and Shiso)

Chicken tenders, which are cut from the breast, are grilled or broiled on bamboo skewers.

Miso-Marinated Salmon

This lightly miso-marinated salmon is served with a bright green spinach sauce underneath.

Grilled Shiitake With Ponzu

This simple grilled or broiled preparation helps fresh shiitake mushrooms shine. Serve the grilled mushrooms garnished with grated daikon and yuzu.
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