Tweet Whole Foods/Dark Rye Magazine A HOW-TO GUIDE FOR MAKING SWEET & SOUR CONCOCTIONS By Warren Bobrow Contrary to what you might think, shrubs are not the large green hedge plants that grow in your backyard. As the “Knights Who Say Ni” well know, those are shrubberies. The real shrubs—strangeContinue Reading

Tweethttp://totalfood.com/strange-delicious-concoctions/ Real shrubs for your cocktail glass, not the kind that take up room in your front yard, are a strange and delicious concoctions of vinegar and sugar-preserved fruit syrup.  During the late summer months, they are especially delicious because they are inexpensive to make and quite thirst slaking.  AndContinue Reading

TweetWhenever Warren Bobrow says he’s publishing a new cocktail book, I get excited, very, very excited. Warren speaks my health & kitchen language- apothecary, homeopathic, restorative, small-batch… Words I live by and the ingredients I create with. His latest, Bitters & Shrub Syrup Cocktails was created in the spirit of medicinally-themedContinue Reading

TweetWhile the term “shrub” might call to mind a short, green plant in someone’s garden, it means something quite different in the mixology world. A shrub is essentially an acidulated (read vinegar-based) beverage as old as history itself. In the days before refrigeration, it was pretty evident that without someContinue Reading