kentucky derby

Pure Leaf Tea & watermelon cocktail.

Pure Leaf Tea & watermelon cocktail.

You heard me right. I was messing around with pure leaf tea, and chanced a cocktail that screamed of summer: fresh brewed iced tea and watermelon. It is refreshing and light and watermelon forward. It worked. Here is how you too can imbibe on a bit of summer:
Watermelon Tea Cocktail… [more]
Vodka
watermelon
Pure Leaf Tea (sweetened)
Put a large wedge of watermelon in your blender—roughly 1 cup of watermelon

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Kentucky Derby 2012

Kentucky Derby 2012

When Pure Leaf Tea invited me to attend the Kentucky Derby on their behalf, I was giddy mid-guffaw. I had never been to the derby, and 2 minutes… [more] after accepting their invitation I started to worry about what hat to wear. Part Southern tradition, part spectacle, the Kentucky Derby ‘hat parade’ is much of what makes “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” one of the greatest people-watching events in the

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Kentucky Oaks: fillies, lilies and frillies.

Kentucky Oaks: fillies, lilies and frillies.

Pure Leaf… [more] invited me to attend the Kentucky Derby, where I learned all about their real, leaf-brewed iced tea (not powder!) and enjoyed it in context of the Kentucky Derby (think tea julep). It was a glorious experience, starting with a Taste of Derby event on Thursday night, the Kentucky Oaks on Friday (more info below) and the well-known Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Yes, just so you know: I wore

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kentucky derby cocktails.

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For me ‘Kentucky’ plus ‘cocktail’ brings bourbon to the front of my brain. I even own a cookbook called The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook. Woodford Reserve… [more] is the official Kentucky Derby bourbon; the official cocktail is the mint julep. In fact, last year at the derby, attendees bought: 120,000 mint juleps, 800 LBS of bourbon balls, 7,800 liters of bourbon and 426,000 cans of beer. Granted, 164,858 were there: dressed-to-the-hilt, placing

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