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Food & Drink | The Cocktail Hour

7 Classic Cocktails Every Sophisticated Girl Should Know

You walk into a bar, go up to the bartender, and...draw a blank. So many bottles, so many options, but what do you want?!? *Definitely* not that Malibu and pineapple juice you've been falling back on since 2001. No, you want these:

Food & Drink | The Cocktail Hour

What Your Drink Says About You - Cocktail Drinkers Personality

Go shave your face, Scotch guy.

Like it or not, the drink you order when you go to a bar tells a lot about you. So, after years of exhaustive research going to bars and staring at people and judging them, we've compiled this shorthand list detailing traits most commonly associated with certain drinks. Be afraid, mojito-drinker. Be very afraid.

Food & Drink | The Cocktail Hour

Making your own cocktails on a plane -- How to mix your own drinks at 36,000 feet

By packing miniature bottles of alcohol and other ingredients, you could mix your own drinks on a plane.

Food & Drink | The Cocktail Hour

8 cocktails that changed the world… of cocktails

When you're sitting in a bar, drinking a Negroni or a Martini or some Midori mixed with grenadine and Jolt cola, you likely don't think about what got that drink in your hand in the first place, do you? DO YOU?!?! Well, luckily we do, which is why we asked our longtime contributor/master mixologist Nick Bennett to look back at the eight drinks that have most impacted the world of cocktails (for better or worse) over the past 200 years: