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The Mint Julep! It's a fantastic drink and one to sip all year, but these days it only gets love leading up to the Kentucky Derby. Troy Patterson at Slate gives us a history as well as hilariously elaborate directions for how to make it:

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Clarissa Wei

Looks can be deceiving.

Price: $4

This is a classic example of "don't believe everything you see." Baoguette Café's black sesame milkshake is delicious. In fact, it's so delicious we could have sworn it was the real thing. And it is--sort of.

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Will Hastings

Drink lots of green beer, or don't.

St. Patrick's Day doesn't have to be filled with leprechauns and cheap whiskey. Here are five different ways to celebrate this Irish fest.

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Vintage absinthe ad

Today is National Absinthe Day, another booze holiday that kicks off a month known for combining drinking with the color green.

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Head to Margaritaville today.

Happy National Margarita Day! If that's not a good reason to get sloshed after work today, what is? Here at Fork in the Road, we're all about the drinking (though ideally that which coincides with eating). Yet the age-old problem with getting too boozy is that you're bound to get hungover. Back around New Year's Eve, we tested out the efficacy of Bytox, a patch that you apply before drinking that transmits rehydrating vitamins via your skin. The results were somewhat mixed -- the first time it worked astonishingly well, but the second time we woke up with a headache. So when we heard about two new hangover cures -- Mercy and NOHO -- we knew we had to get sloshed and take them for a test-drive.

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​Mead, that drink you probably associate with Renaissance fairs, is making a comeback, according to an article in The New York Times. The golden-hued alcoholic beverage is made from honey -- a lot of it. "One bottle of mead is made from a half-pound of honey," said Mark Beran of Medovina Meadery to the Times. Beran is part of a group of brewers who are trying to revive mead by promoting it as a complex and sophisticated drink, akin to wine.

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Lauren Shockey

Two of Pok Pok Wing's drinking vinegars

While Pok Pok Wing is best known for its sticky-spicy-sweet chicken, one of its more interesting foodstuffs are the Pok Pok Som, or drinking vinegars, a refreshing beverage akin to old-fashioned shrubs. "We first starting selling them at Pok Pok about six years ago, when I discovered the manufactured product in an Asian market and took them back to try," explains chef Andy Ricker.

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Ladies can booze.

The wine and spirits world isn't an old boys' club anymore. As the New York Daily News reports, more and more women are getting behind the bar, creating beverage programs for some of New York's top bars and restaurants.

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Lauren Bloomberg

Miss Lily's beef patty is tempting, but stick to the juice.

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There was a time when juicing was associated with pumped-up dudes on steroids, muscles oozing out of their tank tops and veins popping out of their foreheads. Sammy Sosa. The Jersey Shore. Not anymore. With the prevalence of juice fasts, and bottles of green liquid replacing the ubiquitous giant coffee cups, the term has taken on a whole new meaning.

There are many options for getting your liquid fix. Whether it's a stop at one of the many Organic Avenue outposts or the Juice Press, or One Lucky Duck, the list goes on and on. But if you want your juice created by a guy with a serious cult following, you'll have to head over to the brand-spanking-new Miss Lily's-adjacent juice bar, Melvin's Juice Box, on Houston Street.
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The Hot Obama is served not in a long black stretch limo, but in a mason jar with a handle. The vessel is kinda like one of those pope bubble cars.

You've enjoyed the fried chicken at Obama Flavor (now sadly closed), now try the Hot Obama at Joe Doe, a restaurant that describes its food as "aggressive American."

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