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Other variations are common and many
0£
them legitimate, such
as the alternate devised a number of years ago by Steve Hannagan
of using a dry sherry ipstead of vermouth for a particularly lethal
Martini, and a drink thoughtfully named for herself by Rosalind
Russell, the secret of which should be guarded like that of the atom
bomb, but which she is willing the world shall share
if
she is held
blameless of the results:
Rosalind Russell:
%
jigger Danish Alborg aquavit
%
jigger vermouth or dubonnet.
Shake or spoon and serve in the same
ma~
ner
as a
Martini.
. Miss Russell's own comment on this arrangement is: "My father-in–
law, Carl Brisson, introduced me to this drink and sixmonths later
I married his son!"
In
a less heroic generation, however,
it
must
be
recorded that
few demands are received across the bar of the Stork for cocktails
until after the sun has
cro~d
the proverbial yardarm at noon.
Public taste in restoratives, pick-me-ups and simple, old-fashioned
drinking for pleasure runs more to longer and taller drinks and
less to the concentrated essence of life to be encountered in
co~ktails.
As is entirely natural
in
such a highly individualized occupation,
requirements for morning drinks vary with almost every forenoon
drinker. There may be a certain or prevailing similarity of tastes
at more conventional hours and the steward can count upon a fairly
regular dispensation of, say, Martinis at
~llfchtime
or Daiquiris
before dinner, but the
A.M.
elh'ow bender is a Maverick, a lone wolf
and there is no predicting his vagrant whim or fancy.
If
his innards require gentling and the virtues of nourishment
at the same time, his requirement may he for a milk punch or fizz
21:
Morning