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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
juice, strained. Shake and strain into a tall flute cocktail glass with a
stem. . . . Personally we have come to omit all grenadine. The port
gives it all the sweetness needed, also pretty colour.
WIL P. TAYLOR'S
HOTEL NACIONAL
SPECIAL, which,
along with the TROPICAL DAIQUIRI
&
the SANTIAGO de CUBA MINT
JuLEP Is ONE of the THREE FINEST BACARDI DRINKS KNoWN to ScraNcE
Who, who knows his Havana, does not know, or has not heard of,
Wil Taylor. We met him back in 1931 when in charge of World
Cruise Publicity for Hamburg-American Line, and got into Havana
one time in 1933 just after they had mighty near blasted a marvellous
hotel off the map, to get at those Machado-phile officers hiding there.
And Taylor kept right on managing just as
if
it had been old times!
. . . But that time with pineapples sounding off
all
night along the
Prado, we elected to stick to the old downtown Plaza, what with wife
and child, but that did not prevent our remembering with great pleas–
ure Taylor's own Bacardi concoction: ... It is "mighty lak" a Mary
Pickford, but still not, as the latter omits her limes.
Carta de Oro
Bacardi,
l
jigger
Lime, juice
Yi
Fresh pineapple juice,
l
jigger
Dry apricot brandy,
l
tsp
Shake
with
cracked ice, strain, serve in a tall cocktail glass with a
stem. . . . We indicate Gold Label Bacardi for the simple reason that
Carta Blanca
is so delicate in flavour it barely comes through any rich
drink.
THE
OKOLEHAO
COCKTAIL, KNOWN out in the IsLANDS as
the "OKE"
Having made three visits to these enchanted
i~les,
both during and
after prohibition, we have seen, smelled and tasted some pretty strange
beverages out yonder. Actually
okolehao
i's a spirit made from acer–
tain root, fermented and distilled. During her very strict prohibition
administered by a lady who apparently got as much joy out of life as
a newt or an eft-see Webster-Hawaii's "oke" was made from fer-