Want to impress a date? Make ginger beer. It’s alive, it’s bubbly, and it may explode if you look at it wrong. You’ll need ginger, sugar, water, and a starter called a “ginger bug.”
Feed your bug sugar for a week. It will fizz and smell like a zombie’s armpit. That’s good. Mix that bug with more ginger water, seal it in a bottle, and wait 48 hours.
Disclaimer: If you open that bottle indoors, it will geyser like a shaken soda on cocaine. Do it in the sink, or your ceiling gets a sticky baptism. Trust me on this.
The Surprising Spice of History
Ancient Greeks sold ginger for three times the price of sheep. Imagine trading a whole flock for a knobby root. They used it to cure hangovers and to bribe the gods.
Also, ginger can cure motion sickness better than most drugs. Christopher Columbus literally packed ginger for his voyages. He was probably thinking, “If I get lost, at least I won’t puke.”
