Being healthy should be fun,’ laughs 26-year-old clinical nutritionist, restaurateur and author of the unique new alcoholic almanac, Conscious Cocktails, Shannon Rosie, as she pours a nip of tequila in a cocktail shaker and adds a generous pinch of chilli flakes.
She’s making a Spicy Senorita, a drink Shannon likens to a tropical fiesta in a glass (with a high kick, courtesy of the chilli). It’s Shannon’s version of a classic Margarita and it has a healthy, hangover-busting twist, thanks to aloe vera, ginger, the aforementioned chilli and pineapple juice.
‘The aim is to outsmart alcohol,’ she explains, adding that the entire concept behind her first book, Conscious Cocktails, is balance. ‘If the liquor has one effect, the other ingredients are present to counteract that effect. In this case, aloe…