I do love this time of year, but I’m secretly relieved that holiday madness is drawing to a close. (New Year’s Eve is looming on the horizon, but I’m choosing to not think about that yet.) This week, ...

A knob of ginger like the one shown here is mixed with water, sugar and a touch of lemon to make a potent syrup that turns into a DIY Ginger Beer. Using the syrup and sparkling water allows you to ...

Thelma's mother used to make this ginger beer, and Thelma has agreed to pass the recipe along to those of us who aren't in the family. This is one of those drinks that's not hard to make but does ...

Making ginger ale at home is easy, but without a ginger bug, your beverage won't be naturally carbonated or have the complex, subtly tangy, sometimes yeasty flavor that fermentation provides it. A ...

This mint ginger beer is one of the best fake cocktails around. It’s basically a sober Moscow mule, with a sprig of mint in place of the missing vodka. To make the ginger syrup, combine 4 parts fresh ...

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“El Diablo” means “the Devil” in Spanish, though I regret to inform you that the list of its ingredients is as tame as a Sunday sermon. I mean, I’m not asking for the blood of the innocent here, but ...

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When ginger ale or beer is mixed with citrus in a drink, it is - or more accurately, was - known as a buck. Early cocktail books list recipes for the gin buck or London buck cocktail, and variations ...

Over the last several years of testing out tropical food species at Costa Rica’s Rancho Mastatal, we found that some plants that grow well here are not palatable to certain individuals or groups of ...

Over the last seven years of testing out tropical food species at Costa Rica’s Rancho Mastatal, we found that some plants that grow well here are not palatable to certain individuals or groups of ...