Types of Liquor: What Each Bottle Is Made From and What It’s For
The types of liquor that matter, sorted by base ingredient and the job each does in a glass, plus what to buy first and how to store it.
Tessa Calloway
Staff Writer
Tessa Calloway has spent twenty years cooking dinner on a weeknight clock and testing the shortcuts that survive contact with a real kitchen. She believes the best recipe is the one you can make with what's already in the house, and she has strong opinions about what actually needs to be homemade (less than you think) and what always does (dressing).
Articles by Tessa Calloway
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