In 2007, bartender Don Lee was tasked to riff on the Old Fashioned at PDT (Please Don’t Tell), the influential cocktail bar hidden inside a hot dog joint in New York City’s East Village. His solution: ...

The cocktail, dubbed the Pekin Tom, is made with a bourbon washed in the fat from a duck confit, and it’s flavored additionally with stew-esque spices of bay leaf and thyme and a nod to Texas barbecue ...