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Cocktails at Home: Margaritas with Busy Philipps

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Based in Los Angeles, Vicki Arkoff is Editor at Large…

When Cinco de Mayo comes around it means the celebratory start of Margarita season! To make sure you have all you “key” lime ingredients ready for the occasion, actress Busy Philipps and friends are manning the Altos Tequila Emergency HotLime (888-268-1261). 

Not only will a few callers get to chat with the Girls5eva and Cougar Town star herself, but winners will get a Busy-approved Margarita Essentials kit including cantaritos cups, a lime squeezer, juicy limes and more.

Busy is a purist when it comes to making her “Busyritas” at home. “My margarita recipe is simple,” Busy told us. “A great tequila, like Altos, and fresh limes are a must. Add a touch of homemade simple syrup, a half-salted rim, and you’re all set.”

THE BUSYRITA

2 parts Olmeca Altos Plata Tequila

1 part fresh squeezed lime juice

1/2 part simple syrup

Salt

Lime wheel for garnish

METHOD: Pour Altos Tequila, fresh lime juice and simple syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until the shaker feels cold. Garnish you glass with a half-salted rim and time wheel. Strain the cocktail shaker contents into a glass that is pre-filled with ice. 

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Based in Los Angeles, Vicki Arkoff is Editor at Large for Pursuitist and a founding editor for Holiday Goddess, the online destination for chic women travelers from the editors of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Conde Nast Traveler, and BBC. Her travel and lifestyle reports can also be been seen in Atlas Obscura, The Awesomer, DaySpa, The Chicago Tribune, CNN Travel, JustLuxe, Lonely Planet, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Toronto Star, WellSpa 360, WestJet Magazine, Where Traveler, Where Guestbook, Yahoo News, and dozens more. She's co-author of the bestselling Holiday Goddess books (HarperCollins and iTunes) including 'The Holiday Goddess Guide to Paris, London, New York, Rome,' a travel Top 10 staple. As editor, Vicki's other books include 'Sinatra' (DK), 'Inside Mad' (Time-Life) and 'Virgin Los Angeles' (Virgin Books). She is one of the Usual Gang of Idiots for MAD Magazine, an entertainment reporter (Daily Variety, Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, CREEM), and authorized biographer for pop culture icons from the Beach Boys to Beastie Boys, Paul McCartney to MC Hammer.