Monthly Archives: March 2011

— No. 75 —

St. Germain

Spring is final­ly upon us. So lets kick it off with a bot­tle St. Ger­main Elder­flower Liqueur. If you go to the St. Ger­main web­site they’ll tell you the love­ly sto­ry behind their art­ful­ly com­plex liqueur. It all begins at the foothills of the Alps, dur­ing but a few fleet­ing days of spring. Locals will hand­pick wild elder­flower blos­soms and bike sacks of these blos­soms down the hill­side to mar­ket.  These sacks will be the entire­ty of what will become St. Ger­main Elder­flower Liqueur.

— No. 74 —

Amaro

Seri­ous­ly, who knows more about overindul­gence in food than Ital­ians? Neces­si­ty is the moth­er of inven­tion. That’s how we have amaro or if you have a cou­ple then it’s amari (plur­al). Ital­ians gave us this bit­ter­sweet, herbal liqueur. It actu­al­ly means “bit­ter” in Ital­ian.  It’s usu­al­ly con­sumed as an after-din­ner diges­tif in Europe. Amari are typ­i­cal­ly chock full of ingre­di­ents.