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Szechuan Peppercorn: Agent of “Neurological Confusion?!”
Recently Himself attended a class in making bitters and infusions and came home with his head filled with newly-learned techniques and ideas for concoctions he wanted to try. Today we hit Spice Station in Silverlake so that he could stock … Continue reading
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Tagged bitters, Harold McGee, infusion, On Food and Cooking, peppercorn, peppers, sanshool, Spice Station, Szechuan peppercorn
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Big Flavors In Tiny Packages
Remember those foil-wrapped chocolate oranges that usually show up around the holidays, the ones you whack against the table and they fall into a couple dozen slices? Tonight I devised the grown-up version. And a healthy one to boot. After … Continue reading
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Tagged bitters, chocolate, citrus, Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters, tangerine
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Going to Hell in a Spirits Basket?
Andy and I recently won the “Spirits Basket” in a fund raising auction at our church (!), a generous collection of bitters, an assortment of bar paraphernalia (the tiny bat in the photo is a muddler, used for getting medieval … Continue reading