Vermouth
Vermouth isn’t ancient—it’s Italian. And its real history starts in Turin, not the Shang dynasty.
Cocktails
A century of mixing, twice forgotten and twice recovered.
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Cocktail
A word that began as a precise recipe ended up meaning nothing at all.
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