Below is an interpretation of a cocktail sampled at Fig and Olive in New York’s Meatpacking District – Summer in Provence.     The combination of fresh fruit juice, tangy gin, and savory spices creates a cocktail perfect for opening up palates for a dinner party.  It’s refreshing, yet not so sweet that you can’t stop drinking it (this is a problem for me with sweet drinks).  Well balanced is the perfect…

One can return from Mexico with an assortment of things – another tourist t-shirt, illegal prescriptions, illicit drugs, Montezuma’s revenge, the clap, dysentery, yellow fever, malaria, parasites, etc.  Fortunately, my wife didn’t come home with any of those from her trip to Puebla, Mexico. I mean, like I really need another t-shirt… Instead, she came home with a few bottles of tequila and a new drink recipe – a Fresca Margarita recipe. What…