You can get a great craft cocktail just about anywhere these days, but what if we told you that it wasn't always this way?

I'm Tony Tipton Martin, the editor-in-chief of Cook's Country at America's Test Kitchen.

I want to introduce you to a podcast series I'm hosting called 100 Proof,

The Journey of the American Cocktail.

We dig into the origin stories behind some of the most classic drinks

and trace the long road to our modern cocktail renaissance.

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Cheers. From From PRX, this is the moth radio hour. I'm Meg Bulls. We all have childhood memories, some

fond, some painful. Some childhoods are full of dreams and wishes while others are more focused on survival.

In this hour, we bring you three stories. From a small town in Texas to upstate New York to the southeast of England. We'll hear

how different and yet how similar the experience of growing up can be. Our first

story comes from Safra's Mansour. He shared it live on stage at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the

Performing Arts in New York City. Here's Safraz Man parents wedding day in the house when I was growing up.

I grew up in a town called Luton just outside of London in the 1980s and my parents were

Pakistani Muslims and they had an arranged marriage and

apparently it had been such an uneventful day that nobody could remember the day, the

week, the month or even the year that it happened.

Now, my parents were many things, but the one thing they definitely weren't was in love.

And the word love was never used in our house.

It was completely taboo.

You could almost say that love was a four letter word.

And so I was never told I love you before I went to bed.

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