We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. From margaritas to martinis, some of the greatest cocktails of all time are simple combinations of just a few ingredients. One such cocktail ...

This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. It’s sweet-tart and refreshing. Fresh lime ...

“Why on earth this stroke of genius stands unheralded and unsung in this fair and allegedly free land of ours shall, to us, always be a mystery…” The above was published in 1939, when the author, an ...

The Gimlet is a classic cocktail that didn’t start behind some fancy bar, but on the high seas. Well, kind of. The British Navy was suffering from scurvy when it ruled the high seas, until Lauchlan ...

The gimlet, as Terry Lennox tells Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” is “half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.” Now that’s a helluva ...

The story of the gimlet, one of our favorite cocktails, goes back more than 150 years. A man named Lachlan Rose created and patented a product named Rose’s lime juice. Rose, who was in the British ...

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is arguably Los Angeles' greatest (anti)hero. The hardboiled, hard-drinking private eye is the quintessential detective of American noir, world-weary and wandering ...

The gimlet cocktail was popular in the 1920s and featured in The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). The original version was made with lime cordial but modern versions, less sweet, use gin, lime juice and ...

A guy walks into his regular bar, a beer-and-shot kind of bar, at half past 6 on a Saturday. He walks in wanting a beer, but the woman behind the bar is a new girl, and her unfamiliar face combines ...