To celebrate their profits and congressional largesse by putting the squeeze on their poorest customers puts even more icing on their already well-iced cake.
Plunge the cooked beans straight into well-iced water.
Freshly shucked, well-iced Blue Point oysters are a fine way to start, as are the fresh mussels under a zesty lemon-coriander sauce.
Order a chilled beer or a well-iced vodka and tonic, and try not to let the humidity get to you.
Embury wrote that a proper cocktail should whet the appetite, stimulate the mind, please the palate and the eye, taste of booze without blowing your head off and be well-iced.
Here, in an ante-room on the building's upper floor, glass of champagne to hand ("well-iced non-vintage … extremely drinkable" the veteran oenophile was pleased to note), flunkies in respectful attendance, he discovered a galère of distinguished literary figures.
No fewer than 250 dozen well-iced oysters were consumed in a couple of hours, raw on the half shell for this oyster purist, of course, sans sauce, of course, slurped Seattle-style from the shell, maybe with a squirt of lemon, and not impaled on a dinky oyster fork.
Frank's prose is as clear and cold as a well-iced Martini, and lets the characters skewer themselves, from sad-sack Dingleman and his baleful nemesis to an overtanned P.R. agent who proudly wears her company's logo — two teeth biting into the globe — and a liberal welfare expert who rolls up the car windows when he drives through blighted neighborhoods.
By the late 1940s, however, the action had moved to the chillier climate of New York, where trumpet great Davis kept The Cool well-iced throughout the 1950s.
The answer, I'd suggest, is very little: just a tube of sunscreen, a well-iced cooler, and a comfortable lawn chair.
