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CLASSIC SPIRITS: The Fig Leaf Old Fashioned

CLASSIC SPIRITS: The Fig Leaf Old Fashioned

From September 17, 2021

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Ciao! Just back from Italy. A touch of Autumn in the air. I thought a good moment to revisit Alice Lascelles’s classic Fig Leaf Old Fashioned, fig leaves being at their most flavourful at this time of year. It’s such an elegant twist on a classic and I daresay there will be a lot more on these lines in Alice’s forthcoming book on the Martini - which I c…

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