Apple Brandy Hot Toddy

Calvados and Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur ramp up this classic cold-weather tail.

Make Your Own Candy Bars

Corner-store sweets go high-end.

Build Your Own Burrito Bar

Bring your local taqueria home, dress it up, and throw it a party.

Ersatz Papalote Salsa

Better than the best.

None of Your Business

Is it selfish to guard a recipe?

Roasted Rosemary Walnuts

An upscale bar snack for your next tail party.

Snack Time for Lazarus

This week’s mission: superfood bars and stovetop comfort-food kits.

Too Poor for Drinks

Staying home is the new going out.

Your Morning Cocktail

Shaking up an early drink can get the blood flowing again.

Perusing Peru's Pisco

A single shot glass and many, many piscos.

Special Moments with Grim Gruel

This week’s mission: personality-based soft drinks and microwave baked desserts.

If It Ain't Dark, It Ain't Chocolate

The gourmet chocolate trend has spawned dark-chocolate snobs.

Sensitive New Age Cocktails

Does a happy bartender make a better drink?

The Savvy Wedding

Lessons learned and secrets revealed: An insiders' guide to food, booze, gifts, and more.

Conversation with a Cocktail Epicure

Alberta Straub, once described as “the Alice Waters of booze,” has been mixing up sublime adult beverages made with herbs, spices, and fresh fruits and vegetables for the past six years at San Francisco’s Orbit...