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While the temperatures drop and the sky turns white, nothing warms a heart and spirit like a delicious hot cocktail. Born as a flu remedy in the English colonies and used mostly in Northern Europe to overcome the dark days, hot cocktails are a comfort for every day, not only in the mountains area. Let's find out the most famous hot drinks, perfect for pampering yourself during the cold winter evenings. Tom and Jerry: a long tradition A legendary cocktail highly appreciated especially in the United States. The name of the drink is a tribute to Pierce Egan's book “Life...

TV series have always launched trends and catchphrases with a long-life impact in our everyday lives. Comparable to a novel to be read in one sitting, they tell new stories, characters and universes, but also habits and perspectives that immerse us in dreamy atmospheres. Often, they describe the culinary passions of the protagonists, including those for some drinks, characterizing their personalities. For this reason, Netflix opened Bites, a temporary restaurant in Los Angeles, where you could taste dishes and cocktails seen on TV, for a "from screen to table" experience. Let’s discover the delicious drinks that our favorite characters sip...

The 4th of October represents a special anniversary for Vodka lovers all over the world. Vodka Day has been celebrated on this date since at least 2009, in honor of one of the most appreciated distillates. History of vodka Poland and Russia were the first countries to produce vodka. The definition “wodka” appears in texts written for the first time in 1405 in Poland. The name, which literally translated means "water" was an ironic euphemism to indicate a light and clean-tasting distillate, which exceeded more than 50% alcohol content. In 1520, there were already over sixty “official” distilleries present in...

How to create your own cocktail and surprise all your friends The art and magic of creating a drink has been for years an exclusive skill of bartenders that used to creat new combinations and transform classic cocktails into something new.  Revisiting a cocktail by changing the start ingredients or the preparation technique is called a "Twist". There are several types of twist: - Horizontal twist, when one or more ingredients are replaced with others of the same type. (For example, replacing a distillate with another distillate).- Vertical twist, when a new category of ingredients - not included in the...