#288 Cocktail: Vesper Martini

     The drink was invented and named by Ian Fleming in the 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale.
     Fleming continues with Bond telling the barman, after taking a long sip, "Excellent ... but if you can get a vodka made with grain instead of potatoes, you will find it still better," and then adds in an aside, "Mais n'enculons pas des mouches" (English: "But let's not bugger flies"—a vulgar French expression meaning "let's not split hairs").
     Bond in the next chapter, "Pink Lights and Champagne", names it the Vesper. At the time of his first introduction to the beautiful Vesper Lynd, he obtains her name in a perfect interrogation indirect, "I was born in the evening,..on a very stormy evening..," and asks to borrow it.

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2 ounces Gin

1/2 ounce Vodka

1/4 ounce Lillet Blanc

#287 Cocktails: Tremblement de Terre

   A drink mentioned in Absinthe: History in a Bottle, by Barnaby Conrad III, but without measurements. This was apparently a cocktail favored by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French artist who died in 1901, at the age of thirty-six.
    Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!!!! It's a strong cocktail! Consider yourself fore-warned.

2 1/2 ounce cognac

1/4 ounce absinthe substitute

#286 Cocktail: Tom Collins

    One of the oldest cocktails. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by Jerry Thomas, "the father of American mixology", this "gin and sparkling lemonade" drink is typically served in a Collins glass over ice. A "Collins mix" can be bought premixed at stores and enjoyed alone (like a soft drink) or with gin.
     There's a lot to say about this drink, and if I would put all here, would be a loooooong post. So I will keep this short.

2 1/2 ounces gin

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

3/4 ounce simple syrup

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