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On 6/9/2013 7:09 PM, casa bona wrote:
> On 6/9/2013 4:28 PM, aem wrote:
>> Just got to this from the NY Times and Mario Batali today. Make a
>> syrup by simmering 2 cups of water, 2 cups of sugar, and 4 ribs of
>> celery and leaves for 30 minutes. Cool, strain and chill. Now build
>> a drink: 3 oz. gin (he likes Bombay Sapphire), 2 oz. celery syrup, 4
>> oz. tonic water in a highball glass filled with ice. I personally
>> think the celery salad in a different thread would be overkill, but
>> suit yourself. -aem
>>

> Fascinating.
>
> Some celery salt for the rim? ;-)
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>

I don't think I am going to make the tonic but I have had celery soda
from New York and it wasn't bad.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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