Pure, homemade extracts are easy to make and add better flavor to your cooking and baking. These simple instructions can be used to make any extract flavor using quality ingredients—no fillers, ...

The Lemon Drop is a peculiar drink. It is trapped, in a way, in a purgatory of its own making, because they’re two seemingly contradictory facts about the Lemon Drop, and they’re true at the same time ...

The Totonacs of Veracruz, Mexico were the first known people to cultivate vanilla. By the 1400s, the Aztecs were using it to sweeten chocolate. After Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés brought the pods ...

Spicy vodka pasta is a dish that combines creamy richness with a subtle heat, all tied together by the smooth depth of vodka.

For more than a decade, Orlando-based Van Gogh Vodka has been considered a pioneer in the world of flavored spirits. Whether you’re a vodka and cranberry lover, screwdriver kind of guy, or just plain ...

It may be the most popular and most obvious way to use it, but vodka isn't just for making cocktails. The alcohol can also give soups a more robust flavor, make pie crusts extra flaky, and let's not ...

There’s a problem with Vodka Martinis. To be clear, so called “mixologists” like me have been griping about Vodka Martinis for years, so I’ll offer up front that this problem has nothing to do with ...

How exactly does a place earn the reputation of having the very best of something, like a burger, a croissant, or a cocktail? Part of it has to do with word of mouth, fueled (I hope) by press, social ...