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Piranesi
Literary fantasy
Piranesi
Piranesi lives in an immense House of endless halls, classical statues, and lower levels periodically flooded by the sea. He carefully records its tides, tends its dead, and meets only one living person, the enigmatic Other, who is searching for hidden knowledge. New evidence gradually challenges Piranesi's understanding of the House, his own identity, and the intentions of the person he trusts. Quiet, luminous, and mysterious, this compact fantasy is best approached on a contemplative rainy day when you want wonder, solitude, and a puzzle that changes shape as it opens.
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Kidnapping · Imprisonment · Death · Mental manipulation
Alcohol-Free Pour
Tidal Marble Fizz
Pale, mineral, and echoing with salt air.
What you'll need
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- Fill a glass with ice. Add coconut water and lime juice, top with soda water, stir gently, and add a tiny pinch of salt.
- Garnish: Lime wheel.
- Glassware: Highball glass.
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Smoked Old Fashioned
For adults of legal drinking age. Please drink responsibly.
A wisp of smoke deepens bourbon, bitters, and demerara for an Old Fashioned with a dramatic entrance.
What you'll need
- 2 oz bourbon
- 1/4 oz demerara syrup ↗
- 2–3 dashes aromatic bitters
- Ice
- Food-safe oak or cherry wood chips for smoking ↗
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How to mix it
- Stir bourbon, demerara syrup, and bitters with ice and strain over one large cube. Express an orange peel over the drink. Use a cocktail smoker with food-safe oak or cherry chips to fill the covered glass with smoke for 20–30 seconds, then uncover and serve.
- Garnish: Orange peel.
- Glassware: Rocks glass.
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