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The Magical One-Ingredient Cocktail

take a single, gorgeous amaro—which probably has a semisecret recipe perfected and handed down through generations—and shake the absolute hell out of it with ice in a cocktail tin. Isn’t that a sin against the liqueur gods? These bittersweet liqueurs, primarily from Italy, should be sipped room temperature or slightly chilled following an epic

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