Restaurants sometimes put a twist on the traditional recipe, like Claude Troisgrois, which is run by the Frenchman who once ran C. T. in New York; when my wife, Betsey, and I asked him for caipirinhas before dinner, he gave us cocktails made with yellow Persian limes, which produced a drink that was a bit too sweet for our taste.
Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
Tucked inside the Swiss Embassy (Cuba does not have its own embassy in the US), the cocktail area celebrates the writer who made his home in Cuba.
The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.
But the temperance movement, a glut of Oregon cherries and a preserving process that involved oceans of lipstick-red dye, corn syrup and almond extract conspired to give us a cocktail garnish not highly prized as a fruit.
"Our members are telling us that cocktail lounges and bars in their hotels host a great number of visitors from Europe, South America and Asia who insist on smoking," said Joseph E. Spinnato, president of the Hotel Association of New York City, in an e-mail message.
He said, "Your midday vodka collins is ready for you, sir," then he poured us a cocktail, got back into his Bentley and drove off into the dust storm.
We were a lunch guest the other day of a young couple who live in one of the towering, impoersonal apartment houses on Sutton Place, and while our host was making us a cocktail, we found ourself looking down on the cozy, secret garden of one of the few old brownstone houses still standing in that neighborhood.
The New Yorker, August 20 , 1960 P. 21We were a lunch guest the other day of a young couple who live in one of the towering, impoersonal apartment houses on Sutton Place, and while our host was making us a cocktail, we found ourself looking down on the cozy, secret garden of one of the few old brownstone houses still standing in that neighborhood.
