In Summer's Heat, Lighter Cocktails Keep You on Your Feet

'On a warm spring evening, the theme at the Reading Room, a literary cocktail bar in Washington, D.C., was the 2017 novel “Pachinko.” The saga of a Korean family that immigrates to Japan, the book had inspired the dozen cocktails on the menu, each named for a key passage.

One drink, called “She was right; it was weird that he was born in Japan and had a South Korean passport,” was a heady blend of lemongrass, ginger, soju, sake and mint. Another, “The rouge on her lips was the color of umeboshi,” mixed Bermondsey gin, Campari, plum wine and orange peel.

Each week, the bartender Chantal Tseng chooses a new book and offers new cocktails. But one thing about the menu is always the same: Nearly half the drinks are low in alcohol.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/dining/drinks/low-alcohol-session-cocktails.html?

Sunny Day Real Estate Cocktail
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019303-sunny-day-real-estate-cocktail

Stardust Cocktail
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019304-stardust-cocktail

Watermelon Cooler
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019305-watermelon-cooler