Flip flops or boots?
You do know that you can wear Crocs all year?
I do.
And, cargo shorts are always appropriate. But, not with boots.
Following Ms. Fabricant's call, I looked for Amari in some local liquor stores, I was disappointed to find only Fernet-Branca and Luxado Amaro Arano. Perhaps this is a reflection of Midwestern tastes.
@Tuvw Xyz It's a shame you don't live in Brooklyn. We have a shop in Park Slope that specializes in them. In fact, all the amari listed in this article are available there and then some. I don't think they ship domestically yet, but worth checking. The place is accurately called "Amaro Spirits and Wine". Chin, chin!
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@Tuvw Xyz If you come into the city, Eataly has a large selection of Amari. My only complaint is that while they occasionally have an open bottle, they don't give customers an opportunity to sample several different ones. Different Amari have very distinct tastes, and I am reluctant to spend a lot of money on a bottle I haven't tasted.
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@VVV03
Not a shame i do not live in Brooklyn, if fact i am a refugee from Brooklyn. You can keep it with all its pretension, dirty streets, crime and taxes.
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The Black Sunshine-Rye, amaro and lemon juice.
Hard to believe there can be a story about amaro and brown liquor without mentioning Sam Ross's marvelous invention, the Paper Plane: Equal parts rye, Aperol, Amaro, and lemon juice.
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There was a fantastically complicated remedy, available for well over a thousand years called a Mithridatum, which was a supposed protection against poison. It contained so many elements that Pliny, in his "Natural History" states:
"The Mithridatic antidote is composed of fifty-four ingredients, no two of them having the same weight, while of some is prescribed one sixtieth part of one denarius. Which of the gods, in the name of Truth, fixed these absurd proportions? No human brain could have been sharp enough. It is plainly a showy parade of the art, and a colossal boast of science."
That's how I feel when I read about mixologists and their dubious creations. I doubt there are many palates that can discern the presence or absence of some of the lesser components, especially after the first few sips, but nevertheless are happy to pay for the pretense.
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@stan continople
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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@Boulevard
I guess I'm just devoid of your exquisite sensibilities.
@stan continople Amaro alone is a delight. No need to add anything to else, let alone these crazy concoctions.
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Amaro & Bourbon...black Manhattan. Delish.
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Call me Amaro. Or Amara. As a subscriber to the online Times through thick and thin (mostly thin, including three years when I couldn't buy a pair of new shoes), I am darkly bitter at being lured to read food articles like this only to find that I am barred from accessing the recipes.
Given the wealth of free recipes online, the cost of the Times recipes subscription seems out of proportion to the variety and bounty of content—news, opinion, arts, lifestyle, the Magazine, on and on—I get with my basic subscription. And I can access only a small part of the many recipes I had saved and organized in my personal recipe box over time—surely my access to previously saved recipes should've been grandfathered.
I was really curious to see the recipe for that Manhattan with Amaro and Cocoa. Those with the luxury of recipe access: please let us peons know how it tastes!
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I agree. I would occasionally like to see the recipes discussed in these articles, but I don't have access. No problem - it's a little annoying, but I quickly get over it. I'm not that interested that I'd pay extra for it. Most of the specialty cocktails taste like Robitussin with lemon juice anyway. I can do that myself.
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@ C Wolfe Bloomington IN
Frankly, I never understood the readers' complaints about the absence or non-accessibility of the recipes. In my view, the articles provide enough food for reader's imagination, to experiment until the final product is to the reader's taste. More fun that way ...
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I agree as well! Wouldn’t these recipes be included in the print edition? I understand having to pay for the app, with its searchable archive of recipes. But you should still be able to see the ones mentioned in articles just as you would had you bought a hard copy.
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Thank you for this eulogy to amaro, I should try it straight on ice.
Not being an enthusiast of complex mixtures, my two favorite cocktails are Bloody Mary and Mimosa.
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@Tuvw Xyz I will now always have this small tidbit regarding your taste against which to gauge your many comments in this paper, lol. As they say, there is no accounting for taste. Cheers!