the scent of helen mirren made me forget this:
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
A simple Campari and grapefruit is a great summer drink but fewer and fewer pubs stock Campari. It seems pretty out of fashion now.
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funny thing, amaros and italian aperitivos in general have been in the american food/drink blogs A LOT in recent times, but i’m a believer from way back when.
must be a brexit thing there or something? no idea.
here campari is internet-famous i guess, but the other amaros are the real hipster drink. what are their names... lemme see. oh yeah carpano antica, cynar, amaro nonino, etc.
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ok apparently campari aperol etc are not amaros proper, as they’re not made with hard liquor. sorry about that. but they’re all bitter.
i dont know the technical definition but they’re all teh same idea though, made with bitter & aromatic herbs, whether it’s grain alcohol or fortified wine (vermouth), and with a range of sweetness and bitterness depending on who does what. hundreds of herbs and plants.
all this talk of aperitivo is making me hungry
eta: listen to this podcast and salivate
https://www.splendidtable.org/story/...bout-aperitivo
those ladies are swooning with yearning, which is hilarious