Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in addition to Food & Wine she is also the senior editor of Liquor.com.

A good Manhattan is like a trusted friend at the bar: reliable, refined, and always there when you need a confidence boost. It’s the kind of cocktail that says, “I have a classic sense of style, but I ...

So many of the cocktails you know and love are simply tweaks on the core classics and that’s certainly the case with the family of drinks that have come to life in the wake of the Manhattan. The ratio ...

A brief story: I was once taken to a bar by a friend. “You’re going to love this place,” he said, “they have a whole menu of Manhattans!” I’m not naming the place because of what happened next. I ...