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I know what you're thinking: "What if I attached a faucet to a watermelon and filled it with spiked watermelon juice so party guests could serve themselves right from the melon?" Well, my husband finally turned that dream into a reality. After testing three different types of faucets and spending the entire afternoon of our housewarming party creating his masterpiece — only to have it clog just hours before guests arrived, resulting in a mad dash to Home Depot and the supermarket so he could do it all over again — he's now perfected the model so all you have to do is build it. Want to impress guests with a DIY watermelon keg of your own? Read on to find out how...
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Vodka has been enjoyed since at least the early Middle Ages, and is well known as one of the world's most popular spirits. Its versatility in mixing and high alcohol content have made it extremely popular in cocktails, and it is still widely enjoyed 'neat' (straight up) in much of Eastern and Northern Europe. Vodka also has a long history of use as medicine, having been sold by druggists to cure everything from infertility to colic and the plague. While some of those historic promoters were half-cocked, it's true that vodka has a wide range of potential uses beyond serving as a relaxer and social lubricant. Why would you want to do anything else with vodka but drink it? It is widely available, effective and less toxic than many of the chemical alternatives you might use for these tasks.
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Photograph by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times, arrangement by Toby Cecchini Bramble jelly shots. Though I came of age in the 1980s, I missed out completely on the whole Jell-O shot phenomenon. I, like most people, ticked it off as a vile ritual practiced by the orangey-tanned in beachfront bars, and shut the book. At the time I was trying to gain some semblance of what might pass for adult sophistication, not regression, in my drinking. Now that we all know high is low and sophistication may be disguised as pork belly sliders, I began a year or more ago considering the Jell-O shot as a Platonic concept pregnant with possibility.
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The Bacone made its debut at Bacon Camp 2009 , held in San Francisco, CA. It consists of bacon shaped into a cone, filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, and cheese with a layer of country gravy and topped with a biscuit. It also appeared as a special segment on Food Network for their show What Would Brian Boitano Make?