Drink Recipes

Maria watched me fumbling with a saucepan, trying to keep a batch of hot chocolate from scorching while I juggled a tray of cookies. She … Read more

There used to be a tiny cider mill off Highway 6, the kind of place with a creaky wooden floor and a cat named Gingersnap … Read more

My niece asked why I couldn’t just throw some dry ice in the punch bowl and call it a day. I started to explain why … Read more

I was scraping ice off my windshield last Tuesday morning — a truly miserable February ritual — when the smell of chocolate hit me. Not … Read more

This was supposed to be a slow cooker mulled wine. I had the oranges studded with cloves, the cinnamon sticks ready to go, and a … Read more

New Year’s Eve was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten about the party. Everyone else would be bringing champagne flutes and fancy appetizers, and … Read more

I was supposed to be making mulled wine. That was the plan for my Halloween get-together—a big pot of the classic stuff, all clovey and … Read more

There used to be this little café in the East Village called The Cauldron that made a Halloween punch so good it was practically legendary. … Read more

My mom had claimed for years that she didn’t like warm drinks. Tea, hot chocolate, mulled cider—she’d wave them all away with a polite but … Read more

My neighbor wasn’t trying to impress me. I’d stopped by to return her hedge clippers on a gray, drizzly Saturday afternoon, and the smell hit … Read more