Sam Slaughter: Food and Nostalgia

What do the '90s taste like? If this is something you’ve been pondering, you’re in luck! Food and drink writer, Sam Slaughter, has captured the spirit of the decade in his cocktail book "Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids" with delightful concoctions like "I'm too sexy for this grog" and "Pickelodeon."  But successfully pulling off nostalgia takes more work than just clever puns and repeating old catch phrases. Sam talks with Kae Lani Palmisano about how much he had to study the decade and what he had to consider when making original cocktails that bring us back to the '90s.

You can follow Sam at @SlaughterWrites on Twitter and Instagram.  His cocktail book "Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?: and Other Cocktails for '90s Kids" on Amazon.

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