At 83 years of age, John Shelton Reed has authored or edited a whopping two dozen books. His most recent work, “The Ramos Gin Fizz,” was published this summer by LSU Press as part of their popular ...

In 1888, Henry C. Ramos invented a drink at the Imperial Cabinet Bar in New Orleans. Originally, it was called The New Orleans Fizz, a riff on the many other types of mostly gin-based fizzes that ...

Named for the French term meaning "Old Square," a reference to New Orleans' French Quarter, the Vieux Carré dates back to the ...

Maxwell Britten, head bartender at Brooklyn hot spot Maison Premiere, is a man who knows his way around a great spring cocktail. In the above video, he shows us his take on the Ramos Gin Fizz, an ...

Matt McCullough will make anything his customers want, but he really hopes that they don’t ask for something frozen. He doesn’t mind working hard to prepare a drink, he’ll mix a Ramos Fizz, a drink ...

I have an almost magnetic attraction to dishes and drinks that are fussy. Call it a natural predisposition toward being high-maintenance. If it requires some kind of complicated technique or a bunch ...

There’s an old saying that goes: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” A better modern adaptation might be “suggest there’s a mousetrap shortage, and the world will ...