#168 Cocktail: Kamikaze

   The Kamikaze, like the Gimlet, is one of the simplest cocktails out there, but that doesn't mean that is not tasty.
    Classic Cosmopolitans. Restaurants Hospitality, April, 2001, by Robert Plotkin:
"In the 1980s the Gimlet morphed into the Kamikaze, the ultra popular cocktail made with vodka, Rose's lime juice, and a shot of Cointreau. Even now in its third decade, an icy Kamikaze in classy stemware is a 'can't miss' proposition."
     "A Kamikaze was originally simply a shot of cheap vodka that had been doctored with a few drops of Rose's lime juice as a smoothing agent. As cheap vodkamakers started adding sugar and citric acid on their own to the bottles, the practice became less popular. People forgot why you'd add such a small amount of Rose's to a Kamikaze and so it turned into another name for a Gimlet. Somewhere along the line someone added some triple sec, and you got the new Kamikaze." - Mbanu, Webtender Forum.

1 1/2 ounce vodka

1 ounce triple sec

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice