Monday, February 9, 2009
Shaken? All Over.
In honor of Martini History Week (alright, I made that up) Jason Wilson in the Washington Post explains the cocktail's evolution. No response yet from Martini creationists. Wilson rails against "nearly vermouth-free martinis" and the James Bond-style shaken martini. He offers a proposal: “Let’s put to rest both the Mid-20th-Century Very Dry Martini and the vodka martini.”
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Well, there go my cocktail plans for the evening.
ReplyDeleteYou're far too easily discouraged. I favor a big-tent martini ideology, that embraces both shakers and stirrers, dry-martini-ites and vermouthistas.
ReplyDeleteI try a gin martini every 15 years and have never yet liked it, but I like vodka ones, so I like the big-tent approach. Except can we stand on one side of the tent and giggle at the people who drink appletinis?
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree, under no circumstances will appletinis be allowed in our tent.
ReplyDeleteI'll only visit the tent if there is vodka and lots and lots of pickled onions. Come to think of it, you might be better off if you send me and my pickled onions to my own tent. Or at least provide me with some Binaca.
ReplyDeleteGot it. Vodka, Binaca, and a tent of her own for Harriet. Anybody else?
ReplyDeleteGin with a splash of vermouth, two olives and sink a few pickled onions in mine, please. I think you should set up the martini tent outside your local train station - kind of a lemonade stand for grownups.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Lass is down for olives AND onions. This is starting to sound more like pizza than martinis to me, but that's fine. There's room in our big martini tent for that.
ReplyDeleteIf your tent is going to be restricted to clear liquors, then I'm going to have to set up another tent, for Scotch and Canadian whiskies, and Irish and American whiskeys (and yes, I had to look up the proper spellings). Perhaps our tent populations can come together every so often for snacks, like greasy happy hour pizza from Cardozo's.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're back to blogging, by the way.
Thanks for the good words, Unfocused,and thanks also for your meticulous spelling. Your Cardozo's proposal makes a lot of sense--and we could get rid of our damn tents.
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