Rejecting the Usual for a Different Tonic(2012/02/04)
   Dissatisfied with the high-fructose corn syrup and artificial ingredients used to make overly sweet commercial tonic water, entrepreneurs are developing their own properly bitter versions. Charles Rolls and Tim Warrillow of London have concocted Fever-Tree Premium Indian Tonic Water using spring water, cane sugar, natural quinine and other natural ingredients. It is a mixer to be taken seriously. They also make bitter lemon and ginger ale.
   Jordan Silbert, a New Yorker, worked with food scientists before he started producing Q Tonic. It uses Peruvian quinine, is mellowed with agave syrup and has a somewhat more herbaceous taste than Fever-Tree. It is currently used at a few bars, including Gramercy Tavern and Milk & Honey.
   Most people discard chipped plates and never notice the way their kitchen drains look, but Joana Meroz, a Netherlands-based designer, treats these unwanted and unnoticed objects as a blank canvas. In her Ornamented Life collection, sold at the Future Perfect in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ms. Meroz embellishes cracked porcelain plates and cups, bowls and serving pieces with gold dust and plant-like drawings, left and above, making the undesirable desirable again. In her hands, a stainless-steel drain stopper, bottom left, takes on the look of lace, thanks to precise laser-cutting although with a diameter of about 2 3/4 inches, it may be a tad small for the average American kitchen sink.
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