Debut “Love Letter to an Ingredient” on RBC’s Smoked Vermouth

You ever love a thing so much you just had to pen a love letter to that thing? Me, too! My first in a new series of such odes for Bend Source Weekly uses the house-smoked Cinzano red vermouth that Rancher Butcher Chef uses in its “Prescribed Burn” to tell the story of how RBC and its amazing cocktails, including this singular ingredient. I have lots of other secret sauces I can’t wait to declare my love from Broken Top.

Photo: Kimberley “Eating'” Yaeger