After the eternal heat and relentless summer of Seville dies down and we all crawl out of the holes we used to shelter from the sun, a very special time starts. It’s not autumn or fall (they doesn’t exist here, we only have two seasons; …
Making your own homemade Spanish vermouth is the best thing you can do with cheap white wine. It’s modern-day alchemy, where you transform an ordinary (or – if we’re talking cheap pinot gris – terrible) liquid into something delicious. Better yet, by making it at …
I only have bad childhood memories of vermouth. Almost always, these memories—pulled from the locked up part of my brain where things are sent to be forgotten—revolve around a dusty old bottle, found at the backest corner of the highest shelf in the pantry. That …