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--><generator uri="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/smittenkitchen</id><title>smitten kitchen</title><gr:continuation>COja4aW-_rAC</gr:continuation><link rel="self" href="http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/smittenkitchen?n=1"/><link rel="alternate" href="http://smittenkitchen.com" type="text/html"/><updated>2012-07-07T22:02:05Z</updated><entry gr:is-read-state-locked="true" gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1341698525616"><id gr:original-id="http://smittenkitchen.com/?p=8737">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7f6acac129fcb557</id><category term="user/01476091693620736513/state/com.google/read" scheme="http://www.google.com/reader/" label="read"/><category term="Blackberries"/><category term="Drinks"/><category term="Photo"/><category term="Summer"/><title type="html">blackberry gin fizz</title><published>2012-07-07T21:52:54Z</published><updated>2012-07-07T21:52:54Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smittenkitchen/~3/EeHjPgqUpmA/" type="text/html"/><link rel="canonical" href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/07/blackberry-gin-fizz/"/><content xml:base="http://smittenkitchen.com/" type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/07/blackberry-gin-fizz/" title="blackberry gin fizz"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7127/7522653556_5c90bd0225.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="blackberry gin fizz"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Look, guys. It’s Saturday. I don’t want to blow anyone’s cover or make you feel worse if you shivered out the week in an over-air-conditioned cubicle but I have to tell you: I think everyone is on vacation but us. I think they’re on beaches, building sandcastles, accumulating freckles, having &lt;a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/08/lobster-rolls/"&gt;lobster rolls&lt;/a&gt; for lunch and &lt;a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/06/sweet-cherry-pie/"&gt;cherry pie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smitten/7522759954/in/photostream"&gt;juicy peaches for dessert&lt;/a&gt;. I don’t think they’re thinking about us at all. I’ve already broken my please-don’t-be-so-dull-as-to-discuss-the-weather-Deb rule &lt;a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/07/flag-cake/"&gt;once this week&lt;/a&gt; and I don’t want to do it again, nevertheless, given the state of That Which Shall Not Be Named, I think it’s about time we stopped pretending that we’re actually going to be turning on our stoves until sometime in October.
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&lt;p&gt;With all that out of the way, may I offer you a drink? It’s cold; the ice clinks against the side of a very full glass which, you know, is about the finest sound there is. It’s the kind of fizzy that gently mists your face as you lean in for a sip, which would be annoying in, say, November but is exactly what I always hope for in July. It’s magenta and seasonal and it has an old soul, something I kind of dig that in a drink. Shortly after I moved to NYC, I remember going to a bar with a friend of mine from college and she ordered a Sloe Gin Fizz. I looked at her like she had two heads. “Is that an old man drink?” I told her, with (clearly) all of the class I could muster. But she insisted that there was something grand inside that glass, something worth getting to know. I, of course, ignored her, and ordered my usual a gin-and-tonic.&lt;/p&gt;
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