Jordan’s Pink Gin and Tonic Catherine’s Gin Rickey Recipes from author Jillian Cantor We don’t see a lot about characters in The Great Gatsby or Beautiful Little Fools eating, but we sure do see a lot of them drinking! Every dinner and every party and every bit of drama is fueled by prohibition-era cocktails. In […]
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Rachel Hawkins: “The Reckless Girl” Punch Recipe for Reckless Girls
Rachel Hawkins: “The Reckless Girls” Punch Recipe “The Reckless Girl” aka The Artist Formerly Known as Danger Punch recipe is so reckless that I only make it once or twice a year, and then only for the Most Special of Occasions, i.e. It’s That One Day In The South Where It’s Hot, But Not Too […]
WHAT YOU WISH FOR: Katherine Center’s Campechana de Mariscos Seafood Cocktail Recipe
WHAT YOU WISH FOR: Katherine Center’s Campechana de Mariscos Seafood Cocktail Recipe My novel, What You Wish For is set on Galveston Island in Texas, the place where I write most of my books, in a sunny little beach house by the Gulf. This is a special story for me. I grew up coming […]
THE SHOW GIRL: Nicola Harrison’s Maple Bee’s Knees Recipe
THE SHOW GIRL: Nicola Harrison’s Maple Bee’s Knees Cocktail Recipe When Olive Shine, the protagonist of my novel, The Show Girl, invites her friends to visit White Pines Camp in the Adirondacks for the summer, she serves the camp’s signature drink: a Maple Bee’s Knees—a twist on the better-known Honey Bee’s Knees,—using maple syrup […]