The Old Fashioned calls for three dashes of Angostura bitters, and the Manhattan demands two. A truly quintessential Martini sings with a dash of orange bitters, and a Sazerac isn’t a Sazerac without ...

Making bitters at home is easy, and we have the recipes to get you started. If you love making fancy cocktails as much as I do, you’ve probably got a bottle or two of commercial bitters sitting in ...

If bitters aren’t already on your radar, it’s time to change that. Bitters are an alcoholic (usually) infusion of various botanicals that add a subtly bitter or bittersweet twist to cocktails. These ...

Were you one of those people who resolved to drink less in 2016? Or maybe you're determined to avoid a hangover at all costs? Perhaps you're simply just not big on booze but hate sipping on ginger ale ...

MANY COCKTAIL aficionados I know have a problem: that slow-growing swarm of tiny bottles on our bar carts, each one nearly full of bitters. And not just the usual suspects like Angostura or Peychaud’s ...

We all go through phases in life. Like baking sourdough bread or regrowing scallions on windowsills. Or wearing hot pants (hey, they’re back!). You may have gone through a cocktail phase, particularly ...

Feeling bitter? Get in line. These days anyone who takes their drinking seriously is getting intimate with bitters. Fueled largely by the hard liquor and artisanal cocktail booms, bitters – those ...

Like most people, I drink bitters in cocktails or to undo the effects of too many cocktails. Recently I've been adding them to my SodaStream seltzer as a way to wean myself off LaCroix pamplemousse. I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved by bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts for generations, bitters make drinks taste better. Ranging from age-old concoctions ...

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Times. This week he reviews Jon & Vinny's , a "boutique" pizzeria along the Fairfax corridor. It's the latest project from chefs Jon ...

They’re the zipper on the jacket, the key to the door, the fingerprint that makes or breaks the case. They’re usually the smallest component of the drink in your glass, but if you leave them out, you ...