To Indulge: Just Enough of a Good Thing Some ice cream with that macaron, perhaps? The new line from Ladurée offers nine flavors of ice cream and sorbet in four-ounce cups, each one of them crowned with its own matching macaron shell. Along with pistachio, caramel, raspberry and chocolate, you can dip into more exotic tastes of violet, apricot, black currant, lime-vanilla and rose. They are all imported from France: $8.50 each or $34 for four, 864 Madison Avenue (70th Street), (646) 558-3157, laduree.fr. To Sip: Mexican Tequila and Then Some It took 75 years, but Tequila Tapatio, long a popular brand south of the border, finally made it to the United States last year. Now this country will get a bottling even Mexico doesn't enjoy. Marko Karakasevic, master distiller at Charbay, the California craft distiller that is importing the tequila, persuaded Tapatio's distiller, Carlos Camarena, to bottle the blanco at 110 proof, the upper legal limit allowed by United States law. Most blancos clock in at 80 proof. The result is full-bodied, herbal and lush, and may change the way you think about your margarita: $48 for one liter, charbay.com. - ROBERT SIMONSON To Learn: Online Drinking, Supplies Extra The Beverage Alcohol Resource, an organization founded by some of the top bartenders in the business, including Dale DeGroff, Steven Olson and David Wondrich, is offering a free online professional-caliber program for amateur mixologists. How-to videos accompany each of the 10 lessons, starting with the basics and covering topics like bartending techniques, how spirits are made and how to taste them, all with plenty of cocktail recipes: DrinkSkool.com. To Revisit: A Revived Chez Panisse Is Reopening Next week, Chez Panisse, Alice Waters's famed restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., will reopen after an electrical fire on March 8 left a gaping black hole in the wooden bungalow's wisteria-covered facade. The restaurant was shut for nearly four months while builders, engineers, architects, electricians and craftsmen swarmed the place, reimagining and reinforcing it. "It's like a class reunion of all the old hippie carpenters," said Gene DeSmidt, the general contractor overseeing construction. One, Kip Mesirow, has been the lead designer and builder at Chez Panisse since its founding in 1971; the day after the fire, he flew in from Vermont, where he now lives, and immediately began sketching. The result is an enclosed porch featuring a gabled roof and exposed redwood beams that resembles a Japanese pagoda, a melding of architectural traditions Mr. DeSmidt calls "Craftsman-Style Shinto": 1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, Calif.; (510) 548-5525, chezpanisse.com. - MALIA WOLLAN To Serve: A Colander Fit for Company You are not going to park a colander in the middle of the dining table unless it's as sleek as this new one from Quirky, the Web company that specializes in bringing design ideas to market with the help of its online community. That's how this new bowl, in white melamine, came about. There are holes in the bottom for draining salad greens, berries or pasta, and a bamboo base that snaps on to seal them for serving. The generous round shape, almost 10 inches, curves out at the rim to form handles: Ventu Strain and Serve is $54.99 from quirky.com. To Read Aloud: A Sweet Tale Returns to Shelves The children's book author Dorothy Kunhardt is best known for "Pat the Bunny," a fuzzy tale. Now the New York Review Children's Collection has reissued "Junket Is Nice" ($16.95), which she wrote in 1932 (she died in 1979), with whimsical drawings in black and red. It's an eccentric story with a lesson about an old man with a big red beard who sits and thinks as he eats junket, a once-popular bland pudding made by thickening sweetened milk with rennet. It takes a boy on a tricycle to outsmart all the people with silly guesses as to what the old man is thinking about.