FEROCE D'AVOCAT Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Total Time: 25 mins Feroce d'Avocat is a traditional French West Indian specialty made from salt cod, avocado and cassava. Course: Appetizer Cuisine: Caribbean, West Indian Servings: 6 people Author: Vera Abitbol INGREDIENTS ½ lb. salt cod, desalted 1 large ripe avocado (about 1 lb./500g or 2 medium avocados) ½ lb. tapioca flour (cassava flour) 3 scallions 2 West Indian chili peppers (habañero peppers) 3 cloves garlic, crushed ½ bunch parsley 3 tablespoons sunflower oil Juice ...
The Agric’Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned might just be the perfect cocktail. It’s deceptively simple, with only five straight forward ingredients: spirit, sugar, bitters, citrus peel, ice cubes. But the Old Fashioned’s thin line of success or failure rests on two factors: the choice of those ingredients and technique. If you ever want to test the chops of ...
Anatomy of an Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is “old fashioned” for a reason. It’s generally not a medium for radical innovation. “The Old-Fashioned is the Doric column of the cocktail world,” writes Wayne Curtis, author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails (released in a revised and updated version this past ...
An Orgy of Orgeat
Orgeat is a cocktail ingredient that perplexes. For starters, it’s mispronounced more often than many of us care to admit: or-GEE-at, rather than the correct, French-inflected or-ZHAT. In the cocktail world, orgeat is considered to be in the pantheon of “classic” mixers. Yet how many cocktails actually call for the syrup? So is orgeat a classic, an ...
Chairman’s Reserve Mai Tai by Jeff “Beachbum” Berry
Happy International Mai Tai Day! To kick off the Chairman's Reserve Mai Tai Competition, we looked to tiki expert Jeff "Beachbum" Berry for his take on the timeless recipe. In this recipe, Berry calls for a blend of English-style rum (Chairman's Reserve) and Martinique rhum agricole for a trans-Caribbean classic. Chairman's Reserve Mai Tai by Jeff "Beachbum" ...
