THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, consider serving dessert cocktails made with orgeat. Or-what? Orgeat (pronounced or-zhat) is a French almond syrup, an essential ingredient in the Mai Tai as well as the classic ...

This refreshing and iconic tiki drink is made with shaken light rum, almond syrup, lime juice, and Curaçao and topped with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tiki cocktail made with orgeat Say it with us: or-zhaat. More like or-jjott, if you really want to spell it out. No matter how ...

A few years ago, I was living in another part of the world without ready access to certain creature comforts, like good rum, limes and liqueurs. This called for a degree of ingenuity and ...

Interest in the art of mixing drinks in the Bay Area has reached a fever pitch. And just as it's become almost passe for the culinary minded to make jam and can tomatoes, these do-it-yourselfers are ...

Orgeat has forever perplexed me. For starters, for the first year I wrote this column, I said it was pronounced or-GEE-at, rather than the correct, French-inflected or-ZHAT. Roughly half of the ...

Orgeat is something I only found out about in my 30s, about the time when I could confidently afford to go to a fancy cocktail bar and have that confidence dashed by not understanding ingredients on ...