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Is there anything better than a cup of creamy and velvety homemade hot chocolate on a cold winter day or during the holidays? While you can always keep a box of store-bought hot chocolate mix on hand for emergencies, making it from scratch is easy, fast, and tastes so much better. Our hot cocoa is […]
So overall, the weight loss we see from these high-quality studies is very small, and mostly with no change in body composition. The studies included people with different diseases, and most were from the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent. So we can’t be certain we would see this effect in people with other health […]
I love a cozy afternoon pick-me-up and lately I’ve been loving a caramel macchiato. This is one of my Starbucks copycat recipes. You can to learn to make a traditional macchiato here. This version is more like a latte macchiato with foamed milk and flavored with caramel. It’s sweet, caffeinated, and the perfect morning or […]
Recently I started reaching for my bottle of Vermouth Blanc more and more. I had opened it to make an El Presidente cocktail, but during an interview on my IG Live channel with Pierre-Olivier Rousseaux, owner of Dolin distillery in France, he remarked that their Chambéryzette apéritif, made in the French alps, could be made […]
Indigenous Brazilians have fermented alcoholic beverages from the cassava root for thousands of years. These beer-like beverages go by names like cauim, caxiri, and tarubá. Fermentation is an important step in cassava processing—the raw root has chemicals that can turn into cyanide in the human body. Native peoples found that a bit of human saliva […]
In 1914, absinthe was outlawed in France. In the small mountain town of Pontarlier, the world capital of absinthe, the news devastated the livelihoods of thousands of local workers. Nearly all the town’s distilleries closed their doors or relocated. But one producer, Distillerie Guy, remained open, all thanks to adaptation and innovation. Its bestselling drink, Pont (formally […]
The other day I was thinking of cocktails that were fall and winter-friendly. Calvados (apple brandy) of course is always in season, but I also had a bottle of spiced pear liqueur from St. George Spirits in California on hand that has a lovely pear flavor mingled with a bouquet of spices, that I’ve been […]
Get ready for those shorter days and cooler nights by adding a little warmth and color to your home or next gathering. We partnered with Fiskars to use their collection of fabric cutting tools to craft these modern patchwork style coasters. These require a bit of machine sewing but are super beginner friendly, and the […]