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 ...

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 ...

Interest in the art of mixing drinks in the Bay Area has reached a fever pitch. And just as it's become almost passe for the culinary minded to make jam and can tomatoes, these do-it-yourselfers are ...

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 ...

Fact #1 about tiki cocktails: They are delicious. Well-made tiki drinks range from bracing, rum-heavy booze bombs topped with floats of 151-proof spirits, to delicately citrusy quaffers, to ...

If you like Old Fashioneds, this is your new favorite 3-ingredient cocktail. Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits ...