Mary Poppins’s Hot Chocolate
Spoonful of sugar.
The annual Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival runs until February 14, and the region is currently awash in inventive versions of everyone’s favourite winter treat.
The annual Greater Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival runs until February 14, and the region is currently awash in inventive versions of everyone’s favourite winter treat.
Many distillers take advantage Canada’s the berries, grasses, and roots in their distillation process (especially gins) but few have the courage to take one uniquely Canadian ingredient and make it the star of its own liqueur.
In his latest book, Drinking French, Lebovitz’s focus has turned to libations, or more specifically the apéritifs, liqueurs, wines, spirits, beers, and cocktails of his adopted homeland.
“It’s kind of like a Bloody Mary—but better,” is the way Canadians typically describe our confounding signature cocktail.