Cocktail History, Culture & Recipes

Few cocktails capture the festive sparkle of winter holidays quite like the Peppermint Martini . Cool, crystalline, and playfully nostalgic, it blends modern dessert-cocktail aesthetics with a surprisingly deep lineage of mint spirits, candy-making traditions, and the evolution of flavored martinis during late-20th-century cocktail culture. I. Origins 1. The Ancestry of Mint Spirits Long before the Peppermint Martini existed, mint was already an important herbal flavor in glo

Few drinks embody holiday tradition, Old World craftsmanship, and decadent seasonal ritual like Eggnog. Rich, velvety, spice-kissed, and celebratory, Eggnog has traveled from medieval English posset bowls to American colonial taverns, to 19th-century punch culture, to modern winter gatherings around the world. It is at once ancient and timeless—an annual return to warmth, indulgence, and conviviality. This is the complete historical and cultural story of Eggnog, along with a