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The Seelbach Cocktail

It’s practically New Year’s Eve and simple champagne won’t do; you need something with a bit more elan and oomph. Enter the Seelbach Cocktail from a hotel of the same name in Louisville, Kentucky, via Ted Haigh, aka Dr. Cocktail’s handy Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails.

Spritz Cookies

My wife’s family isn’t Scandinavian, but Spritz cookies are supposed to be. Still, her grandmother passed down this recipe (it’s even in her handwriting, if since scanned and shipped about via email), and whether it came from the nearby settlement of Swedes in Kansas or a church cookbook, it’s still one fine way to celebrate the season.

30 Meals, 1,000 Dishes

Out of boredom and the desire to challenge myself with a simple cooking experiment came the idea to test my stubborn persistence: make a unique homemade dish every day for a month. To bring this one zany idea to fruition I needed:

Ethiopian Night

Two West Coast food traditions have nothing on Ethiopia. Seattle-and the rest of the world-got beat to coffee by hundreds of years, and while San Francisco is famous for its sourdough, Ethiopia’s injera-a spongy, flatbread sourdough that is central to its cuisine-is centuries older.

Electric Martini Shaker/Stirrer

Here’s what I want for Christmas-never to be so lazy that I can’t shake my own darn cocktail. Sur la Table has the useless Pro Electric Martini Shaker/Stirrer gizmo on sale at $99.95 discounted from $190, but I’d say that price has a decimal place to give before this shaker can even become the Singing Bass of 2007, something worth a laugh before it gets jammed in a closet or regifted to Uncle Herbie.

Heaux, Heaux, Heaux

Christmastime in New Orleans is deliciously magical. Steeped in tradition, folklore, and food, the festivities provide a unique flavor.

First Blush Offers Healthy Swigs

For those of us who prefer ingesting grapes in their liquid form but aren’t always sure wine is the best choice, there’s now First Blush. Billed as the “first all-natural premium variety grape juice,” First Blush (firstblushjuice.com) takes wine-quality grapes and makes a cabernet, merlot, chardonnay, and rose from zinfandel.

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