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Most of us have been advised, at one time or another, that it’s necessary to take the bitter with the sweet. This idiom uses bitter for “bad” and sweet for “good,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.

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Everyone knows that cocktails are usually made of spirits, vodka, gin, and rum, but do you know about bitters? Underestimated bitters are the secret ingredient that can take an average drink and make ...