Because It's Never Too Early to Plan for Summer

Yesterday I celebrated Cinco de Mayo by having tacos at a Mexican bodega on the far West Side of Manhattan. It's a grocery store in the front but has a window all the way in the back where two women cook authentic tacos, Mexican sandwiches and quesadillas.

Yesterday I washed three pork tacos down with a Boing! Mango drink, which I decided would be awesome in some summer cocktails.

Here's what I love about the internet: think something up, search for it and voila! it is there waiting for you to discover it. I now have a virtual library of mango cocktail recipes at my fingertips. And I use the word library, because I think these recipes will require hands-on research drink-in-hand research.

And then a co-worker mentioned a drink she had in Mexico city called a michelada, which is beer with lime juice in a salt-rimmed glass and this, too, will require further inquiry in my summer studies. All in the name of science, of course.