Manhattan Lovers, Start Your Cherries!

Tips on preserving cherries for cocktail garnishes and other purposes, plus why it's a worthwhile project

If you’ve followed me over the years, then you know I get pumped when sour cherries are in season. (If you haven’t, hello! Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Amanda and I’m very into cherries.) That’s because cherry season, which is happening now in the Northeast and many other locales, is when it’s time to make cocktail cherries cured in warm sugar syru…