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12 Essential Drinks That Offer a Sip of American History

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Shannon Mustipher • Prop Styling: Maggie DiMarco • Props: Bar Cart by Hay/Design Within Reach As the United States marks 250 years this July, its beverage history offers another way to read the country:…

Benjamin Franklin’s Milk Punch

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Shannon Mustipher • Prop Styling: Maggie DiMarco Long before clarified cocktails returned to modern bar programs, milk punch solved a practical problem: how to make a punch that could keep on a shelf and…

Switchel

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Shannon Mustipher • Prop Styling: Maggie DiMarco • Props: Glass by Cocktail Kingdom Switchel, or haymaker’s punch, is essentially a precursor to Gatorade: a colonial-era farmer’s solution to staying hydrated while working under the…

Homecoming

Photo: Murray Hall • Food Styling: Shannon Mustipher • Prop Styling: Maggie DiMarco Red drinks have long held a celebratory place at American tables, particularly across the South and the African diaspora. The tradition reaches through West African bissap, Caribbean…