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The California Distraction
Rosemary simple syrup
(Boil ½ cup sugar, ½ cup water, and 1 small bunch of rosemary. Let cool.)
3 ounces gin
2 ounces fresh blood orange juice
Champagne or prosecco
Combine gin, juice, and 1 tablespoon rosemary simple syrup. Top off with champagne and a sprig of rosemary to garnish.
Sit in the sun for 15 minutes. Now take the rest of that cocktail and get back to work.
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Ramona Ausubel is the author of the novels Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us, and the short story collection A Guide to Being Born.
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Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the novels Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty and No One Is Here Except All of Us, and the short story collection A Guide to Being Born. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been long-listed for The Frank O’Connor Short Story Prize, and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions award and the Pushcart Prize.
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