You’re three days into a road trip. The cooler has melted ice, warm soda, and a bag of sad strawberries. The only kitchen in your motel has a mini-fridge and a microwave. You want real ice cream—not the gas station kind that tastes like frozen sugar water. This is the traveler’s ice cream problem, and it has a specific solution....

Most people treat non-alcoholic cocktails like glorified juice. Pour some OJ, drop in a cherry, call it a mocktail. The Sunny Morning Cocktail is not that — and the difference between a version worth drinking and one you forget by noon comes down to three things: the right grenadine, the layering order, and temperature control. This covers the full recipe...