This. As someone for whom food & bev was a career for 18 years and now it's a dedicated hobby Suderman is the Salt Fat Acid Heat of booze. It's graduating past memorizing recipes and into theory and framework.

Also please God pour out that old vermouth, get a new one and put it in your fridge.

> Also please God pour out that old vermouth, get a new one and put it in your fridge.

Don't pour it out, but deglaze your pan the next time you cook.