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IF YOU DISLIKE drinking alone but your best friend is your cat, good news! There’s now wine available with the feline barfly in mind. Your tabby can enjoy a fine Pinot Meow or White Kittendel from Colorado-based Apollo Peak. Or, if kitty has a refined palate, perhaps some Meow & Chandon from the Pet Winery in Fort Myers, Florida. The kitty hooch is essentially nonalcoholic watered-down catnip because, let’s face it, cats can be bad drunks.

Source: New York Times

FOR THOSE WHO love books but hate to read, take a page from the Columbia Room in Washington, DC. As part of a recent tasting menu, the bar served a libation made from old texts. Century-old tomes were vacuum-sealed in grape-seed oil, and the infusion was washed with a neutral high-proof spirit. The tincture was then combined with Armagnac, sherry, a porcini cordial, and eucalyptus. The result, said the chief bartender, had “that musty, fusty, old library quality to it.”

Source: Washingtonian SPEAKING OF literary mixology, book titles, it turns out, lend themselves to quirky-sounding cocktails. Tequila Mockingbird by Tim Federle is devoted to such concoctions. Among the more tortured entries: The Pitcher of Dorian Grey Goose (Grey Goose vodka, lemonade, mint), Are You There

God? It’s Me, Margarita (tequila, lime juice, triple sec), and Bridget Jones’s Daiquiri (strawberries, champagne, lemon juice, and granulated sugar).

IF YOU CAN SURVIVE the harsh Yukon winters, chances are you can stomach anything, including a Sourtoe Cocktail. It’s a shot of your favorite liquor garnished with a petrified human toe. You read that right: Hard liquor is involved ... and a human toe, one of more than ten that the Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City has been gifted by unfortunates who lost them to frostbite or accident. Apparently, in the Great White North, this is how they while away the winters— more than 100,000 brave souls have ordered these toetails.

Source: dawsoncity.ca