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Recipe report: Expect the unexpected with these curiously unusual cocktailsRecipe report: Expect the unexpected with these curiously unusual cocktails

Flavor trend predicting veterans McCormick for Chefs are pointing to a few new trends for 2025, including tropical vibes, charred components and the element of surprise (“deliciously unexpected”). These cocktails have got you covered for all of the above.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Editor-in-Chief

January 29, 2025

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These cocktail recipes take the idea of an old reliable cocktail and turn that upside down, resulting in some real creativity pouring forth, from King Cake simple syrup to a prune-pear shrub to a curious black pepper and dates combo and McCormick for Chefs' flavor of the year, aji amarillo pepper, whose subtlety belies a wild flavor discovery.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Editor-in-Chief, FoodService Director

Tara Fitzpatrick is editor-in-chief of FoodService Director. She previously served as senior editor for Food Management magazine.

At the start of her career, Tara was a reporter for the daily newspaper in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she still resides. She holds a journalism degree from Kent State University. She's also a mom, a pretty good home cook and a fan of ghost stories, folklore, architecture, retro recipes, cheese of all kinds and cats of all kinds.

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