Hey, Milk Street Radio listeners, for a special episode all about Italy, I'm taking your calls with Lydia Bostianich.

From pasta to Pinella and beyond, send us your biggest Italian cooking questions or problems.

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I'm Christopher Kimball, and here's Milk Street editorial director, J.M. Hirsch, with a special

holiday cocktail recipe sponsored by our friends at Alagash Brewing Company.

So searching for the perfect drink for the holiday, I actually took my inspiration from

the summer. I love good apparel spritz, but that's really the quintessential drink of warm

weather. Alagash White, a Belgian-style wheat beer, gave me the perfect way of bringing the apparel spritz into cool weather entertaining and gives us the Alagash spritz.

I really like the notes of coriander and orange zest with kind of a low hop profile in Alagash White.

And using it in place of the more classic

Prosecco you're getting all the bubbles you're still getting those kind of vibrant

bright citrusy notes but it's also got the heft to stand up to cool weather

sipping so let's make an Alagash-ash spritz. I'm going to start off by grabbing a wine glass, although really any glass will do.

And I'm going to throw some ice in there.

I'm not a big believer in having too much ice, but this is a drink where you want a little bit extra,

so I would go about halfway up through your glass.

Now, of course, one of the signature ingredients of a spritz is the apparel, so we're going to add two ounces of apparel.

And then to play off the citrusy notes of the aligash white and of the apparel itself, we're going to add about a half an ounce of orange liqueur.

Now, just like in our cooking, in our drinking, salt heightens and brightens all the other

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