Cocktail cabnet number 8

This cocktail classic – which pitches an orange palate with a blue visual – has fallen out of favour. Blue being a colour of fear in most food and drink, this has left Curacao (coor-ah-sow) rather stranded.

Curacao itself is actually an essentially clear liquid, made on the island nation of Curacao from a cousin of the orange called the Laraha fruit. As a fruit it is wildly bitter, but brewed with neutral ...