No-Waste Cocktails

Food waste, energy conservation, and sustainability have long been hot topics among chefs, and now the bar world is catching on. We have all heard of nose-to-tail dining; in this issue mixologist Spencer Taliaferro explains how he is bringing that same waste-nothing approach to cocktails. A Closed-Loop Cocktail repurposes a single ingredient in order to eliminate waste behind the bar, finding new uses for kitchen scraps that would otherwise end up in the garbage.