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A variety of spices, herbs and other botanicals give bitters their intense flavour. Dan Toulgoet photo Making your own bitters at home is a lot easier than you may think. However, we need to ...

Any bar worth its rimming salt should be stocked with at least a couple of bottles of bitters. Sure, you can make a cocktail without them, but you can also roast a chicken without salt or pepper. Like ...

Evan Mallett is hovering over some plants in a Victorian-era greenhouse in Portsmouth, N.H. Mallett, a chef at the Black Trumpet Bistro, is collecting medicinal herbs, which he infuses in alcohol to ...

In the Old West, snake oil salesmen wandered the plains, peddling their wares to unsuspecting folk. A good deal of their business was in health-giving tonics, which were little more than a mixture of ...

“For so long, we’ve been able to go to the store and get whatever cheap things we want. And now people are becoming more interested in handcrafted, regional products,” says Shae Whitney, the City, O’ ...

I very much enjoyed your instructions for classic manhattans (Man at His Best, February). In the future, might I suggest including some recipes for homemade bitters? —Jaime Vega, Bethesda, Md.

Without bitterness, the sweet things wouldn't be as sweet. This applies to life, but it is a culinary truth as well. Bitter flavors are often regarded negatively; our most primitive selves associate ...

Tomorrow on Good Food, Evan talks to author Brad Thomas Parsons about his new book Bitters:A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All. In this outtake, Evan asks Brad about how to make bitters at home.