LCBO Food & Drink Autumn 2023

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Combing through our archives, these are the quintessential mixed drinks that have withstood the test of time and stayed current. Master the recipes and mix your own to build up your cocktail fundamentals.

BY JAMES CHATTO | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES TSE

Would you add a tune you made up in the shower to the score of a Mozart concerto? Or paint on top of a Picasso? Probably not. And yet few of us have any qualms about tinkering with the masterpieces of the cocktail world. Here, we journey into the past (with Food & Drink ’s archive as our time-travelling portal) to find iconic recipes for four classic cocktails, then bring them right up to date with some twists of our own. (You’ll also find The Margarita and The Mojito online at LCBO.com/fdautumn23.) May they inspire your own variations on a theme.

No classic cocktail collection is complete without a Daiquiri. Read all about it (and get the definitive recipe) in our Summer 2022 digital issue at LCBO.com/ foodanddrink.

FOOD STYLING BY LINDSAY GUSCOTT; PROP STYLING BY ANDREA McCRINDLE

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