Maraschino

Means, liqueur distilled from small, black mascara cherries.  Means, cherries preserved in that liqueur.  Means, this is going to hurt. Rainiers, Golds,  plump Royal Annes are soaked in brine, bleached like bloodstained clothes in calcium chloride and reeking sulfur dioxide until their brightness leaches out and skins are plasticized to snap between the teeth. They […]