The classic cocktails are making a slow comeback | Food and Drink

The day after New Year?s you probably don?t want to hear this but Heublein, the wine and spirits company, says the cocktail is coming back. By cocktails we mean the classic drinks. The martini. The Manhattan. Drinks made with gin, vodka, whiskey, brandy. On the rocks or in highballs. It?s a ripple, not a wave, says John Burcham, executive director of the National Liquor Stores Association. Still, Letitia Baldrige, the Washington, D.C.-based expert on etiquette and author of Public Affairs Private Relations (Fawcett; $4.99, paperback) notices that baby boomers are drinking high-quality hard liquor.

?I see them going back to liquor ? scotch, bourbon and rye. Three or four years ago it was always wine.? Pulling the cork on price Glen Ellen Winery is the first to do it: a wine without a cork that sells for $10. The winery, best known for its Proprietors Reserve wines, has a small line called the Imagery Series featuring rare grape varieties. It?s a wine to chill and drink with spicy pasta.

To encourage people to drink it right away, Glen Ellen even printed the label upside down ? to indicate the best way to look at the label was while the wine was being poured. One thing?s for sure: At $10, it?s the world?s most expensive screw-cap wine. The food groups for kids Here are the basic food groups and recommended daily servings for children ages 2-6. A kid-sized serving is one-fourth an adult portion, or one tablespoonful for each year of the child?s age.

Breads, cereals, rice, pasta: 6 servings.
Vegetables: 2 servings.
Fruits: 2 servings.
Milk, yogurt, cheese: 3 servings.

Meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, nuts: 2 servings. Lettuce heads for variety First it was bell peppers in funny colors. Now the USDA?s Agricultural Research Service, in the process of collecting a worldwide gene pool of lettuce, has discovered red, yellow and blue-green lettuce varieties. The last color also features 2-foot stems that can be eaten like celery.

Oreos tailored for Japan Oreo cookies have finally become popular in Japan (where a 5-ounce box costs $1.50), but, to please the Japanese palate, two changes had to be made: The amount of sugar in the wafers had to be reduced to play up the bitterness, and the cream filling had to be removed altogether.

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