A Spoonful of Drunken Raisins

A clean glass jar, half a cup of raisins floating in about 3/4 cup of gin. Gigi used to enjoy exactly nine drunken raisins daily. She told us it was for her arthritis—a remedy for inflammation. Now that I’m older, I think she just liked having a bit of gin before bed, and that’s as good a reason as any.