Recipes

The Only Eating Plan to Get You Through This Election

And by eating we mean drinking.
Image may contain Ice Cream Creme Cream Food Dessert Dish Meal and Plant
Alex Lau

On the night of the debate, you can find us at the bar. Or on our couches with friends, simultaneously thumbing through Twitter and heavy-pouring gin to the top of a highball glass. So, yeah, "the bar." To get through the worst of it, we'll be following this menu of stiff drinks and bar snacks scientifically proven to help survive the election. Feel free to join in.

  • Image may contain Wax Seal Confectionery Food and Sweets
    Alex Lau
    1/26

    Blood Orange Jell-O Shots

    Potent—but so much classier than your dive bar shots. Take one every time you're tempted to reach for the remote and change the channel to reruns of Real Housewives.

    View Recipe
  • Potato Wedges on a white platter with a sidecar of ketchup.
    Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Mieko Takahashi, Prop Styling by Alex Massillon
    2/26

    Spicy Oven-Roasted Potatoes

    Who’s crazy enough to deep-fry on a weeknight? Not us. Crazy is what's being broadcast back to us during a live debate already. These baked fries are the only thing that makes sense anymore.

    View Recipe
  • Mezcal Paloma cocktail recipe
    Marcus Nilsson
    3/26

    Mezcal Paloma

    Mezcal is strong. So is our will to live, in spite of this election.

    View Recipe
  • Image may contain Food Dessert Cake Creme and Cream
    Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott
    4/26

    Neo-Neapolitan Bombe

    Coordinate the entrance of this gigantic ice cream ball with questions about national security. This is the bombe.com, with an "e." There's nothing to worry about. It's just ice cream. A lot of it.

    View Recipe
  • Image may contain Bottle Shaker Drink Cocktail Alcohol Beverage Plant Glass and Lemonade
    Alex Lau
    15/26

    Fresh Ginger Moscow Mule

    We thought we knew fantasy from reality, fresh ginger from the fake stuff. But this election is making us question everything. Nothing is sacred.

    View Recipe
  • Image may contain Plant and Food
    Alex Lau
    16/26

    Coconut Kettle Corn

    Make a double-batch. You'll need something sweet, salty, and coconutty to distract you from sliding into the heated comment storm brewing on your distant cousin's Facebook page.

    View Story
  • Negroni cocktail with a light blue and dark blue background.
    Photograph by Isa Zapata, Food Styling by Pearl Jones
    21/26

    Negroni

    It’s the original 1:1:1 cocktail (equal parts gin, vermouth, and Campari), a bittersweet classic—and one we'll take large gulps of every time a moderator motions that a candidate needs to wrap it up.

    View Recipe
  • Popcorn with buffalo dressing on white and red plate
    Photograph by Jarren Vink
    22/26

    Buffalo Wing Popcorn

    Because this is pretty much the Super Bowl of politics. Except the stakes are much, much higher.

    View Recipe
  • Image may contain Plant Confectionery Food Sweets Human Person and Fruit
    Peden & Munk
    23/26

    Manhattan

    The cocktail named for the town where both candidates are from. Guess we'll have to drink two.

    View Recipe
  • Image may contain Food and Plant
    Ture Lillegraven
    24/26

    Boozy Fudge Sauce

    Chocolate and booze combine because they're "after your best interests."

    View Recipe
Explore Bon AppétitEntertainingEntertaining + Style