The Smiley Coyote

A Cocktail Homage to the Great Betty Fussell

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    drink
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      5 min

Appears in
Les Dames d'Escoffier New York Cookbook: Stirring the Pot

By Silvia Baldini and Sharon Franke

Published 2023

  • About

I created this cocktail in honor of the trailblazing food writer (and my dear friend) Dame Emerita Betty Fussell, in celebration of her forthcoming memoir, How to Cook a Coyote: A Manual of Survival. Each ingredient relates to a facet of Betty’s life: bourbon for her groundbreaking book The Story of Corn, which put food history on the map; orange juice because she’s a California