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Indigenous Imbibing: The Locavore Bar Trend
By Kelly A. Magyarics
As restaurants increase their focus on locavore cuisine, guests at the bar are also more aware of what’s in their glass-and where it’s from. Operators recognize that patrons not only like to eat local, they drink that way too. So bars are reaching for local and regionally distilled spirits, as well as farm-fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables for infusions, shrubs, bitters and garnishes.
3 oz. Purity vodka
4-6 pieces of rhubarb
2-3 Strawberries
1 oz. Water
¼ oz. Simple Syrup
Muddle rhubarb and strawberries. Add remaining ingredients and ice to a shaker and shake hard until ice cold. Double strain into Martini glass and garnish with strawberry and rhubarb.
The mixologists at Purity vodka submitted this recipe.
The White Cosmo
2 oz. Vodka
1 oz. St. Germain elderflower liqueur
1 oz. Lime juice
1 oz. White cranberry juice
1 Orchid or other edible flower as garnish
Shake all the ingredients together with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish an ice ball with an orchid or other edible flower frozen in its center.
The mixologists at db Bistro Moderne in Miami created this recipe.
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