Grateful Dead Drink is the ultimate party starter. The irony is that it makes you gratefully dead but literally alive, capable of enjoying every bit of the moment. Wait! Did I just justify its name?

Paula and her guest, chef Stephanie Godke, featured recipes using a new, locally-produced beverage called Very Berry Raspberry Liqueur from Mississippi River Distillery, LeClaire, IA. Godke ...

Q: I am making a raspberry-sauce recipe of Ina Garten’s that calls for raspberries, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/4 cup water, 1 cup seedless raspberry jam and 1 tablespoon framboise liqueur. I have not ...

As a child, I remember picking chokecherries with Gram near our cottage on Pelican Lake. We'd fill several pails. Back in the kitchen, she'd wash the berries and pick them over and put them in a big ...