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4 ORANGE

Orange is the new green with 4 Orange Premium Vodka by Imperial Brands. Each bottle of 4 Orange Vodka contains twenty Florida oranges derived from four varieties - Hamlin, Parson Brown, Temple, and Valencia. Rather than adding artificial orange flavoring, 4 Orange is actually created from the citrus fruit itself making it the world’s first orange-based vodka you can “squeeze”. Its unique distillation process is entirely sustainable, with no waste resulting from its creation. PEACE RIVER CAIPIROSCA

Created by Arturo Sighinolfi, Southern Wine & Spirits of South Florida

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 oz. 4 Orange Premium Vodka 1/2 oz. Simple Syrup Dash Bitters Orange Slices Lime, quartered Lime, Pinwheel

PREPARATION

Muddle Orange, Lime and Simple Syrup. Add Vodka and shake with ice. Pour into a double rocks glass. Top with Bitters and garnish with a Lime Pinwheel. Whole Foods Market will accept natural wine corks at all of its stores making it easy for wine enthusiasts to help save the planet. Cork ReHarvest works to sustain the cork forests, a critical resource for our planet. Mediterranean Oak Forests supply corks and are among the highest levels of plant species in the world. Not a single tree is cut down during cork extraction. The bark is harvested by hand every nine to twelve years. According to Patrick Spencer, director of Cork ReHarvest, “It is truly amazing the number of food and beverage professionals who have been told that the cork trees are cut down for cork, that plastic closures are as “green” as a natural cork. None of these “facts” are true. We believe that when consumers know the real facts about natural cork, they will actively make the decision to support wineries that use only natural cork.

The health of the people living on our planet cannot be separated from the health of our planet.” Help out by bringing your corks to a Whole Foods Market near you.

Cork ReHarvest is also currently working on a national distribution partnership that would allow restaurants and retailers to have their corks picked up on site, hopefully in 2011. For more information, visit corkforest.org.

LIVING LOADED

Living Loaded Tales of Sex, Salvation, and the Pursuit of the Never-Ending Happy Hour by Dan Dunn. Author of the popular “Imbiber” column for Playboy and TheImbiber.net, a popular blog destination for adult-beverage enthusiasts gives a spirited account of a life well wasted. Dunn has made a career out of knowing a lot about booze and shares his secrets in this essential handbook for the twenty-first-century imbiber.

BECHEROVKA LIQUEUR

Pernod Ricard introduces Becherovka Liqueur, a bitter herbal liqueur that blends more than 20 exotic herbs and spices with aromatic oils, alcohol and mineral-rich water from the Czech Republic. The secret, closely guarded recipe almost exclusively known to only Josef Becher and Christian Frobrig signifies their quest to create the elixir of life over two hundred years ago.

MATA HARI ABSINTHE

Mata Hari is the first Bohemian-style absinthe in America. This means that the amount of anise seed in the recipe is reduced resulting in a totally “mixable absinthe” without a dominant licorice taste. Absinthe was banned and then revived and became extremely popular with the release of the movie Moulin Rouge starring Kylie Minogue as the Green Fairy.

FUN FACT

“It’s sort of bizarre that alcohol is the only consumable product sold in the U.S. today that doesn’t list what’s inside the bottle,” says Guy L. Smith, executive vice president in North America for Diageo, the world’s leading company in distilled spirits, beer and wine. Currently there is a proposal before the federal Tax and Trade Bureau to list nutrition information such as calories, carbohydrates, serving size and alcohol per serving on labels.