The Gimlet is a classic cocktail that didn’t start behind some fancy bar, but on the high seas. Well, kind of. The British Navy was suffering from scurvy when it ruled the high seas, until Lauchlan ...

In today’s food section, you can read about Austinite David Alan’s new book, “Tipsy Texan: Spirits and Cocktails from the Lone Star State” (Andrews McMeel, $19.99), which came out this week.

The gimlet is a simple masterpiece — beloved by Raymond Chandler (and his chief creation, Philip Marlowe). The shaker is a mix of gin, lime, and sugar that feels like springtime in a glass. It’s ...

The story of the gimlet, one of our favorite cocktails, goes back more than 150 years. A man named Lachlan Rose created and patented a product named Rose’s lime juice. Rose, who was in the British ...

The gimlet, as Terry Lennox tells Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye,” is “half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.” Now that’s a helluva ...

Supermarkets and other shops have seen a shortage of Roses Lime Cordial after a fire at a factory. A blaze hit a Coca Cola building at where the brand of squash is made and it is causing the outage ...

On this day in 2017, Radlett’s “White House” went on sale for £2.4m. Once home to lime cordial magnate Lauchlan Rose, the historic estate is steeped in wartime history and local legend.