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  • Maybe have a nice liqueur to go with it, amaretto or averna or whatever.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • Maybe have a nice liqueur to go with it, amaretto or averna or whatever.

    Archive 2004-03-01 2004

  • Maybe have a nice liqueur to go with it, amaretto or averna or whatever.

    What I cooked last night. 2004

  • you made the best choice in my opinion. a friend of mine recently told me about adding a splash of averna an easy to find amaro to the negroni. i wonder what that does? next time i have one, i'll try it and see! nice blog.

    Apéritif Haalo 2006

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  • I could do it in my sleep now. I was asleep, considering our backstage festivities, the flowing Averna, the tranquilizing smoke.

    —Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002, Middlesex, p. 494

    August 17, 2008