Northwest Indiana Times Book Review - 'Saved by the Bellini & Other ’90s-Inspired Cocktails'

Looking at the drawings in this fun cookbook, I realized the 1990s was the decade that computers were more like typewriters with screens attached, cell phones came in bags and were very large, and that human history can be divided into before and after the release of the 1995 movie, “Clueless,” which I also never saw. I do know, though, that it introduced the phrase “as if,” that I’ve heard a million times, usually with an eye roll by the person who is saying it. I can’t go back in time, but I can celebrate my lost decade with the cocktails in deBary’s book, including Fruity Scotch, which is simple enough as it involves soaking some type of fruity and sweet-tasting cereal in Scotch and such other cocktails as Frosted Tips (because it seems like heartthrobs of the time Freddie Prinze and Val Kilmer appropriated this hairstyle) and Ay Mockarena because before there were TikTok dance challenges there was the four-step dance called the Macarena which was so easy even I could do it.