We like to plow through these heady drinks with a stack of cheap Genoese salamis. Chinotto, for anyone who hasn’t sipped the bittersweet nonalcoholic soda, looks like Coca-Cola but is made from a citrus fruit grown primarily in central and southern Italy and some secret herbs. Serve in a highball glass.

Ingredients

　　3/4 ounce (20 ml) cheap grappa

　　Dash of Fernet Branca

　　Ice

　　Chinotto to top up

　　Pour the grappa and Fernet Branca over ice. Stir and top up with the chinotto.

　　Reprinted with permission from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan & Meredith Erickson, copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.