When the Violet Hour‘s Patrick Smith was challenged by Maria Carlin of Big Star to create a cocktail using black sesame, he says he was relieved: “It’s not a terrible ingredient to work with.” He describes its flavor as “like tahini, but darker and fuller.”
Smith says the drink—which he named Black Magic Woman after an early Fleetwood Mac song—is “dark and extremely boozy, but goes down easy. Kind of like a painkiller.”
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