Time for a Drink: the Martini
From Recipes “It wasn’t until the Mad Men era that the less-is-better approach to vermouth really started catching on.” [ Flickr: BGLewandowski ] I’m probably going to get all kinds of feedback on this one, likely ranging from “Amen!” to “Heresy!” but before you sharpen your keyboard, let me say one thing: the Martini is way more flexible than you might think . Nowadays it’s typical to order one of these in a bar and be given a glass of something clear and cold—in many situations, a large, chilled pour of gin or, let’s face it, vodka, with nothing in it except a massive olive or three. With all due respect, that’s not a martini. That’s just cold booze, and there’s no shame in ordering that if that’s what you want. But for at least the first five decades of its circulation, ever since a drink with that name and this general description first appeared around 1900, a martini required vermouth—a lot of it, none of this atomizer business or that stale “glance in the direction of a vermouth bottle” hokum. And early on, much of the vermouth making its way into …
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