My friends Allan and John just returned from a trip to Venice, Italy. While in Venice, they noticed people ordering large pitchers filled with an orange liquid. The beverage turned out to be not Orange Kool-Aid, but Spritz Aperol. <br /> <br />Aperol comes from Padua and was originally created in 1919. Some of the ingredients are bitter orange, gentian, rhubarb and cinchona. <br /> <br />As Allan says: "One of the things we like about it is that it's light in both flavor and <br />alcohol--a change from our usual brain-numbing martinis--giving us a gentler <br />launch into the evening." <br /> <br />I looked online, and didn't see Allans's recipe so give him full credit! It also counts as a punch because it has fruit in it! <br /> <br />You will see a picture when I have luck in uploading it. <br /> <br />

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