It might have been around for hundreds of years, but gin remains the cocktail ingredient par excellence, offering endless possibilities for bartenders. David Paskins gets all dewy-eyed over juniper and angelica, and reveals the secrets of those perfect gin classics

Jim Meehan, co-owner of New York’s cult hot-dog-stand-turned- cocktail-bar PDT, has just picked up Tales of the Cocktail gongs for Best American Bartender and World’s Best Cocktail Bar in New Orleans. Alice Lascelles asks the man from Please Don’t Tell to Please Tell All...