Hamilton, William L...

244 Pages·2007·1.29 MB·English

by  Hamilton, William L.

shaken & stirred

through the martini glass
and other drinking adventures
william l. hamilton
for my mother and father
drink me
“ ”
— alice’s adventures in wonderland,
Lewis Carroll

table of contents
iii Epigraph
acknowledgments
ix
introduction
1 Drinking on the Job
7 champagne life
8 There Are Nights WhenYou ThinkYou’ll
Never Drink Again | sparkling mango
11 MakeYour Life Fall Away | french 75
14 A ’ighball | raspberry caipiruska|french mojito
18 A Champagne Snow Globe | champagne cocktail
21 A Recipe for a Perfect Day | the snack bar pitcher
24 AndYes, It’s Really Nancy Drew | titanic
29 mudwrestling, and running
with the bulls
30 Mud Wrestler | long island iced tea
33 Ready to Rock | mello jell-o shot
36 A Cesspool of Invention | strawberry basil margarita
39 Pitcher-Perfect | sangria
42 A Good Month for Kitsch | the lover’s concerto
45 Good Clean Fun | minnesota antifreeze | the pink puppy
49 femmes fatales
50 Lucy Liu | shanghai cosmo
53 That Ole Black Magic | campari d’asti
raspberry gin fizz
57 Unconventional Beauty | martini rossi rosso
60 Sweet Booze of Youth | yellow desert rose
63 A Touch of Evil | la paloma
66 Oh My Goodness, I’m Feeling It | me and mrs. jones
69 A Tough Sell | the dirty jane
72 The Original Uncosmopolitan | adam and eve
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74 Dark as a Motive | bella donna
77 Drink Another Day | the vesper
80 Men Just Throw DVD Players Out | the vamp
83 Average Joe | lucy colada | cocorita
87 men about town
88 I Want to See the World | sir francis drake
huckleberry ginn | martin luther
92 Blue-Eyed | the incredible hulk
95 Every Man a King | the silver king
98 Deep Tissue | the union cocktail
101 Sophistication Has Its Costs | bleeding heart
calamansi collins | jefferson bloody mary
105 A Prizefighter Around Children | the bone
108 A Four-Ounce Education | ginger daiquiri
111 Dr. Brown | wolf’s royal cream soda
the harrison tonic
117 revived
118 Drink It While It’s Laughing at You | southside
123 There’s That Music Again | mojito
126 A Superb Chill | that stinger
129 A Morning Drink | the manhattan
132 Global Positioning | the sidecar
135 asia major, and an atoll
136 A Consummate Diplomat | tablatini
139 Atomic Weapon Testing | singapore sling
142 Yam Seng | blood-orange cabernet martini
coconut cosmo
145 The Birth of a Star | kumquat sour
bo hai | kumquat mojito
149 Courtly Even in Its Disguises | sake sunrise
152 Where the Southwest Meets the Far East | kentucky
turban | blenheim rum ginger snap
156 Bugs for Lunch | tamarind rum punch
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159 strong water
160 Gin Either MakesYou Cry or Fight | the bombardier
163 The Oral Tradition, Nicely Iced | the martini
166 A Wild Card | blue moon
170 An Aperitif in Black Tie | the tuxedo
173 The Toddy Effect | juniper and berries
hot buttered cider
176 Worth the Nosedive | gin blossom
way of the dragon
179 A Serious Work Tool | the gimlet
182 A Ballad | kind of blue
185 Everyone Snacks the Olive | the gibson
188 Tumbleweeding | ten sage
191 Type B | red snapper
195 sweet
196 Cocktail Nation | white hot martini
199 Breakfast | cool vanilla latte
203 the vodka wars
204 Au Revoir and Out | french martini
207 That’s What Vodka’s For | red lemon
210 The Time-Space Continuum | cosmic cocktail
213 The New Kid | town plum
217 two loungers
218 Liquidity | apple martini
221 Hey,You | the stone rose
225 index
225 By Drink Name
227 By Main Liquor
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