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Happy Hour: The Juice Cocktail by 2016 Beard Award Nominee Cure

Hilary Deutsch

Hilary Deutsch

Mon, May 16, 2016

To honor this year’s Beard Awards, we asked each …

To honor this year’s Beard Awards, we asked each of our 2016 Outstanding Bar Program semifinalists to create a cocktail inspired by a television show. Neal Bodenheimer, partner at the stylish (and now JBFA-nominated) New Orleans establishment Cure, crafted this “sunrise-style” drink based on the highly publicized trial (and recent television series) The People v. O.J. Simpson. As he explains, the cocktail is irreverent, “because that’s the way we process controversy in New Orleans.” Get the recipe.

Learn more about the 2016 James Beard Awards.

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Hilary Deutsch is editorial assistant at the James Beard Foundation. Find her on Instagram.