Drink Recipes

It was 11:47 PM on a random Tuesday in December, and I had a craving that just wouldn’t quit. You know that feeling—when your brain … Read more

My cousin Mark asked why I couldn’t just use real champagne instead of sparkling water in the jello shots I was making for our family … Read more

I was standing in the frozen foods aisle at Target last Tuesday, grabbing a bag of cranberries for a pie I probably wasn’t going to … Read more

There used to be a tiny coffee shop tucked into a converted garage on College Street that made a vanilla cinnamon latte I still think … Read more

There used to be this tiny, dimly lit bar in the East Village called The Velvet Fang that made a Halloween punch I still dream … Read more

My sister-in-law, Karen, had claimed to hate sangria for years. “Too sweet,” she’d say, waving away a pitcher at every summer barbecue. “It’s like drinking … Read more

The woman at the farmers market stall watched me sniffing her basket of tiny cinnamon sticks—the ones that looked like rolled-up bark, which they were—and … Read more

My neighbor, Mrs. Gable, watched me wrestling a giant plastic cauldron out of my trunk last October. She didn’t say anything at first. Then she … Read more

I’d claimed to hate hot chocolate for years. Not the idea of it—I mean, who hates warm, sweet drinks in winter? But every version I … Read more

I used to think hot cocoa bombs were a little bit extra. Like, why go through all that trouble when a regular mug of hot … Read more