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s. Whether whipping up a cocktail with friends or planning an indulgent libation with family at home, here are the best spirits for your spring socialising.  Monkey 47 Gin Named after the 47 botanicals that go into crafting this German gin, it provides a complex taste experience. Heavier woody, spicy and vegetative notes lead, alongside a softer undertone of sweet fruit and herbs, emulating the fragrances of the brand’s Black Forest home. Monkey 47 is full of character, ensuring you’ll never get bored of this spirit and making it perfect for gin connoisseurs seeking something a little different. Try a...

Camping gives us the opportunity to trade the chaos of work, errands, and traffic for a weekend under starry skies in the presence of good friends or family. Getting everything together for your trip to the woods can be a lot of work, however, especially when preparing meals for your people. To make things easier, we’ve rounded up 12 premade camping meals for you to prepare at home and reheat on a campfire with your best pals. Leave the ramen at home and try these delicious breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that will leave everyone in your group happy, full, and...

Every fall, the sight of winter squashes in all their glory — stacked in bins at the supermarket, arranged in piles at the farmers market — brings me a shiver of joy almost as invigorating as the realization that I can finally turn on the oven at any time of day without worrying it’ll overheat the house. Roasting is my preferred way to cook so many vegetables, and these babies are no exception. My favorite varieties are the drier, firmer ones such as kabocha, acorn and red kuri, partly because they turn so nutty and caramelized in the oven, but...

“Tastes like chicken” has a lot of comic mileage because nearly everyone on the planet is familiar with the fowl. Chicken is on most any menu anywhere (except, of course, at plant-based restaurants, though plenty offer items that, um, taste like chicken). The largest meat-cooking section in most general cookbooks is of recipes for chicken. And, according to one grocer I know, “skinless, boneless chicken breast is the country’s most popular (animal) protein sold.” Even so, in a strange culinary roundabout, we’ve engineered most chicken — especially those skinless, boneless breasts — to taste like not much of anything at...