The Breakfast Martini – How to Achieve Interesting Taste

When dealing with cocktail recipes, one might ask how good taste can be achieved. In this post, I will try to give an at least partial answer to this question and, as an example, explain how Salvatore Calabrese's delicious Breakfast Martini satisfies the criterion derived before. I will also briefly touch upon further examples that illustrate the concept. As is commonly known, the sensation that we usually call taste is produced both by our sense of taste and our sense of smell. There are five basic tastes that we can detect with our tastebuds: sweet, sour, bitter, salty and savory (umami). So it is safe to say that…

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The peanut butter and jelly sour – turning a classic sandwich into a cocktail

There are generally many joyful culinary experiences. Some people are more into eating delicious foods and drinking delicious drinks than others, but most people have several things they really like. This post is about an approach for creating new drinks that I call "turning things into drinks". This post is going to demonstrate the concept by presenting a recipe for a "peanut butter and jelly sour". This drink is obviously inspired by a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and I think it is fairly interesting to see how one can "translate" the flavors into liquid form. Originally, I got the idea from this post about a peanut butter…

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Sgroppino al Limone cocktail with a bottle of vodka in the background

Sgroppino al limone – with extra layers of lemon flavor

The Sgroppino al limone (lemon Sgroppino) - a weird name for a simple drink. A summer drink, really. Lemon sorbet, vodka, sparkling wine, blended - what's not to like? It is definitely on the sweet side, which makes it a dessert drink despite the absence of creamy ingredients. While this Venetian drink might not be the most sophisticated one, it is most certainly delicious. What the hell is a Sgroppino? The traditional Sgroppino consists of nothing more than these three ingredients, yet one can, of course, imagine numerous variations. While non-traditional, other flavors of sorbet or a flavored vodka might be used. Another, less obvious choice that one…

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