St. Cecilia’s Punch
May 30, 2023
REFLECTIVE OF THE ENGLISH (TEA), FRENCH (champagne and cognac), and West Indian (rum) influences on Carolina Lowcountry culture, St. Cecilia’s Punch was introduced at the
REFLECTIVE OF THE ENGLISH (TEA), FRENCH (champagne and cognac), and West Indian (rum) influences on Carolina Lowcountry culture, St. Cecilia’s Punch was introduced at the
REGIMENTAL PUNCHES HAVE BEEN CONCOCTED IN THE South for ceremonial events ever since The War Between the States, and none is more famous (or infamous)
A WEDDING PUNCH IN THE SOUTH ALMOST automatically implies plenty of champagne in a large crystal punch bowl. As for the other ingredients, the sky’s
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE GRADUATIONS IN THE South still warrant almost as much social attention as weddings and christenings, and no celebration is right without
IT’S MY GUESS THAT MOST OF THE ELABORATE alcoholic punches that played such an important role at lavish social gatherings on the eighteenth-century rice plantations
THE CLASSIC COCKTAIL OF KENTUCKY, TRADITIONALLY served virtually all over the state on the first Saturday in May at the running of the Kentucky Derby
SECOND ONLY TO THE SAZERAC AS NEW ORLEANS’S most famous and unusual cocktail, the Ramos gin fizz was created by a bar owner named Henry
OF ALL THE EXOTIC COCKTAILS ASSOCIATED WITH THE city of New Orleans, none has a more colorful history or enjoys greater popularity than the glorious
GROGS, NOGS, JULEPS, SHRUBS, BLUSHES, SOURS, coolers—nothing betrays the South’s rich and diverse ethnic heritage like the array of intriguing names applied to many of
TRACED BACK TO A THICK, FROTHY CONCOCTION served in Elizabethan England, the term syllabub derives from sille (a French wine) and bub (a bubbling drink)