1. Place the sugar and water in a saucepan and start to bring almost to a simmer while you zest limes. 2. Add the zest to the pan before simmering starts, and once simmering, simmer for 10 minutes. 3.

The centuries-old Gimlet is getting a makeover, just in time for spring. A proper gin gimlet apparently dates back to the 19th-century British Royal Navy. The lime cordial in it was thought to prevent ...

The Gimlet is a classic cocktail that didn’t start behind some fancy bar, but on the high seas. Well, kind of. The British Navy was suffering from scurvy when it ruled the high seas, until Lauchlan ...

“Why on earth this stroke of genius stands unheralded and unsung in this fair and allegedly free land of ours shall, to us, always be a mystery…” –Charles Baker Jr., The Gentleman’s Companion: An ...

In today’s food section, you can read about Austinite David Alan’s new book, “Tipsy Texan: Spirits and Cocktails from the Lone Star State” (Andrews McMeel, $19.99), which came out this week.

To me, homemade cordials are a fabulous opportunity to create something vibrant, zippy and refreshing to drink. More often than not, we settle for the sugar-filled options from the supermarket, but ...

The gimlet, as Terry Lennox tells Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” is “half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.” Now that’s a helluva ...

One lady who rang after a recent show told me she has a treeful of limes. Can you believe it - the lucky thing! She wanted some lime recipes so here's one I sent her for starters. This cordial is ...