FOOD & DRINK

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. - Steve Allen



It is well known that the illustrious and famous Martini is a great winter drink, what better way to warm the body and soul than with a pure alcohol drink? Yet the Martini is an almost mythical drink, everyone knows it is classy and glamorous, yet very few people ever order it, and only the best bartenders know how to make it to perfection.



The classic Martini is Gin and Vermouth. It is only recently, in the last 40 years, we have seen the influence of vodka becoming almost mainstream in the Martini.



Like most legendary cocktails the origins of the Martini are somewhat diluted.  We do know for a fact that it is around 100 years old and came from either London or the United States. Many great people throughout history have been aficionados of the Martini including Kingsley Amis, W.C Fields, Humphrey Bogart, Ian Fleming, Richard Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill. The Very Extra Dry or Naked Martini was Churchill’s preferred style, and it apparently became known that he went to extreme lengths to ensure the ultra dryness. These included using a perfume atomizer filled with vermouth to spray a fine mist over the glass, to simply let the sun shine through the bottle of vermouth onto the gin filled Martini glass, or waved the bottle over the glass, near the end of his life some say he simply bowed toward France before drinking his glass of straight gin.


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