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Tommy Gun

2 thin slices fresh ginger

1 teaspoon apricot jam

¼ ounce fresh lemon juice

Ice

2 ounces Irish whiskey

½ ounce Grand Marnier

1 lemon twist, for garnish

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the ginger and jam with lemon juice. Add ice, whiskey and Grand Marnier and shake well. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Bar Drake, San Francisco, from "Food & Wine Cocktails 2008 (Food & Wine Books, $14.95)