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I did not go to Rio for the mist. But as I walked along the curve of Ipanema beach my first morning there, the sky was the color of a nickel and was drizzling down a fine, weightless rain. It had sent ...

With the sweltering summer months on the way, it’s time to shake up your cocktail game. READ: 10 Low-Calorie Summer Cocktails And for some much-needed inspiration, we recommend heading down south, to ...

If summer is for bottomless caipirinhas, winter is all about warming quentão. Here are recipes for both. If it’s not made with cachaça, it’s not a caipirinha.Credit...Bobbi Lin for The New York Times.

There’s a familiar growth spurt among spirits: (1) Scotch is popular. (2) Scotch drinkers visit Scotland. (3) Drinkers complain stateside Scotch is rotgut. (4) Liquor stores see a new market. (5) ...

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Outside of Brazil (where it is the best-selling spirit), cachaça is best known for its starring role in the caipirinha—a simple three-ingredient, lime-infused cocktail. Rum drinkers will find cachaça ...

A genuine Brazilian drink, cachaça is the spirit most consumed in the country and the third in the world. The caipirinha drink (cachaça, sugar, lime and ice) is on the menu of bars and restaurants of ...