Martinique’s most treasured export, rhum agricole is a far cry from all those Bacardi-and-Cokes of your bygone youth.

Spirits columnist for Incisal Edge dental lifestyle magazine, Lauren Mowery, offers a review of this international treasure, made from freshly crushed sugarcane juice.

If an island respite from your dental practice this summer isn’t in the cards, though, you can always replicate Martinique’s local cocktail, called Ti’ Punch, at home. No recipe required: Just pour a splash of one of these rhums in a glass. Squeeze in lime. Add sugar — not too much; you’re a dentist, after all — and swirl.

Lauren Mowery, Incisal Edge spirits columnist

Insight on a few varieties: https://www.incisaledgemagazine.com/mag/article/cane-reaction/