Ode to the Martini
by Avis Yarbrough
With equal parts gin and dry white
vermouth, no other alcoholic drink has had the sophistication and
the mystique that surrounds the martini.
Odes to the martini have
come from Winston Churchill, H.L. Mencken, and, Ian Flemming’s iconic character,
James Bond.
As a result, the martini is cemented in American’s conscious as
something special and probably should be tasted by every adult once
in their lives.
Although the martini is said to be
invented in the late 19th century, the popular cocktail
is viewed the way it is today because 1940’s, 1950’s and
1960’s. Eventually, though the martini popularity started to drop
in the 1970’s, making a strong come back in the 1990’s.
The martini has evolved over the years.
For example, Vodka Martini which was first reference in 1951 book
called the "Cocktail Book Bottoms Up" by Ted Saucier, took
the place of the traditional gin-based martini.
Even though the
vodka martini is still popular, and still requested in restaurants
and bars across the country, equally and eagerly, so have
non-traditional martini drinks.
New concoctions include the
chocolate martini, pomegranate martini, to an apple pie martini.
In 1950’s there was nothing more
American than apple pie, hence the apple pie martini.
Here are
two recipes for an apple pie martini:
6 parts Premium Vanilla Vodka,
1 part Calvados,
1 part dry Vermouth.
The second recipe includes:
3-ounce
Absolut Vanilla Vodka,
1 ounce Brandy,
1 teaspoon of Dry Vermouth,
2
silvers of green apples,
1 chuck of green apples.
Even more popular and often looked back
on with shock is the three-lunch martini of the 1950’s, which will
be recreated in the upcoming original AMC series Mad Men.
The Martini has an never ending appeal to many
people, we can thanks the 1950’s and 60’s for making the martini
what it is today-always classic and trendy.
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