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On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:08:32 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

>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? ;-)
>>
>>

>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.


There's only one; Dr Brown's... and it's Cel-Ray Tonic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-Ray