If At First You Don’t Succeed, Chai, Chai Again…

I was recently asked to share my masala chai recipe, and it brought forth many feels.  For one, hearing the phrase, “hot chai tea latte,” makes my brain melt from the nuclear-level redundancy, of which I am clearly not a fan. The other source of my ire is ginger, one of the staple spices of…

Botanical Butchery and the Birth of a Cocktail

It’s been rather chilly here, in NY, since I bottled the wild sodas/cordials, featured last week.   So much so, that I’ve left the lot of them on the deck to ferment further, in hopes of gaining some serious fizz factor.   I checked my babies this morning, and they are the epitome of bubbling brilliance, clinquant…