1001 Cocktails
"There is something about a Martini,
A tingle remarkably pleasant;
A yellow, a mellow Martini;
I wish I had one at present.
There is something about a Martini,
Ere the dining and dancing begin,
And to tell you the truth,
It is not the vermouth--
I think that perhaps it's the gin."
Ogden Nash's irreverent lines are among my favourite poems. Here's my toast to Ogden Nash - 1000 more cocktails he'd want to sing about !
Mixing cocktails in India can be a pain. With no cocktail culture, most of the ingredients needed are just not available. So I've designed these cocktails around stuff available at most Indian stores.
Dressing up a cocktail is an art. The best way to learn cocktail dressing is to see them gloriously presented in one of my favourite blogs - Ideas in Food by chefs Aki and Alex.
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1001 South Indian curries now and learn to cook, not to duplicate ! ( Thanks Robert Pirsig !)
"Recipe purity is no different from racial purity or linguistic purity. It just does not exist. Cuisines are alive and change all the time. What is traditional today was esoteric just a few decades back. So being a 'foodist' is as bad as being a racist !
2 comments:
More poetry! I love that one. I'm sure it helps that I'm a devotee of martinis. ;) I also reprint poems on my blog sometimes! I call the feature, imaginatively, "Food Poetry." When I run across a poem in which food plays a part, I put it into a post; that way I can justify having poetry on a food blog. :)
Ramki, I haven't read much of Ogden Nash, only three poems to be exact, but you reminded me of him, and I remembered something I had seen - it was this:)
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
Must say, he had a terrific sense of practical humor! No offense meant!
Thanks a lot for sending the cocktail page to Jukebox. Like you said the scope is less but I am sure it is widening!
Just wish I had something to snack on:)
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