Pisco in the Time of Cholera

For a long time, I’ve been wanting to make a Pisco cocktail to honor one of my favorite novels, Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez. In the story filled with magical realism and the fate of unrequited love, one of the most dramatic proclamations is made by Fermina Daza when she accepts Florentino Ariza’s wedding proposal circa 1880 with these words:

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

And from those words, a challenge was born — to make a Pisco cocktail using eggplant that even Fermina Daza would fall in love with.
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Pisco Sour Marshmallows

Molecular mixology can be intimidating, and while many recipes call for special ingredients and tools to create foams, spheres, and pearls, there is one thing you can do to transform a cocktail using simple ingredients from your pantry — you can make a marshmallow. All you need is some Pisco, gelatin, egg whites, sugar, corn syrup, and you are in business. Presenting, the Pisco Sour Marshmallow, a molecular mixology version of the National Drink of Peru, just in time for World Pisco Sour Day, cheers!
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The Pisco Greyhound

Presenting, the Pisco Greyhound, inspired by the drink loved by both gin and vodka drinkers, this Pisco version is made using three different cooking techniques — sous vide maceration, simple syrup infusion, and broiling. Get in the kitchen, break out your cocktail shaker, and get prepared to be rewarded by some Pisco and chill.
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The Last Days of Pisco

Inspired by the Prohibition era Gin cocktail The Last Word, I imagined what life was like in California right before Prohibition began. Right when the Pisco Punch was the most popular cocktail of San Francisco. Right before it all went underground. What was life like during the last days of Pisco? There must have been a river of Pisco flowing in the streets of The City.
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Sumac Sour

Presenting, the Sumac Sour — an exotic and floral Pisco Sour variation with Japanese sake and a French aperitif wine made to honor the Peruvian opera singer and Inca Princess, Yma Sumac.
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