vodka martini
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Fuck It, Make Your Dirty Martini With Tequila
My relationship with martinis can be traced back to the bar at Bern’s Steakhouse in Tampa, an iconic establishment that’s decorated like a French bordello. Desperate to be perceived as refined, I ordered a dirty martini with my shrimp cocktail and ribeye. Marco — the platonic ideal of an old-school bartender — asked if I…
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The Best Ways to Filth Up Your Dirty Martini
I will always love the dirty martini. It was my gateway into the wild and wonderful world of gin, and I love any excuse to drink brine. After all, the key to making a classic dirty martini lies in letting the brine replace — rather than supplement — some of the vermouth, so as not…
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Embrace Your Summer Feelings With the Warday’s Cocktail
There’s a line from an Eileen Myles poem that I keep turning over in my head: “Every season has cracks through which winter or fall might leak through.” And while Eileen goes on to declare June “the most perfect flavour,” for me, the month of September is undoubtedly the time with the most eclectic fractures.
