The following excerpt is her recipe for red wine and honey-poached pears and plums. This is exactly the type of dessert I love—simple flavors, not in-your-face sweet, and full of complex ...

in addition to Food & Wine she is also the senior editor of Liquor.com. The Spiced Pear Spritz is a fragrant winter refresher made with pear vodka, falernum liqueur, Peychaud’s bitters ...