Upgrade Your Old Fashioned With Gum Syrup

Use an immersion circulator to make a heavier, thicker, historically inspired syrup.

This is a newsletter about cocktails. And I promise we’ll get to some drink-making later on. But before we can get there, I want to talk a little bit about steak.

The best home-cooked steaks I’ve ever had were made with a device called an immersion circulator, using a technique known as sous vide. An immersion circulator is a rolling-pin sized gadget wit…