Another Installment of Martini Wisdom

What's in a Martini?
For the purist, a martini is always icy cold gin with dry vermouth, served in a long stemmed, cone shaped glass. It may be garnished with a ribbon of fresh lemon peel or an olive skewered on a pick - but it is an otherwise plain, naked, honest drink. One may experiment endlessly with brand names, how to get it cold enough, and the proportion of gin to vermouth. But switch to vodka, add flavor, or even change the garnish -- and the reverent traditionalist believes that the martini loses its identity and dissolves into a sea of ordinary cocktails.


You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is...one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. - Bernard DeVoto

Gin, once called "Genever", is a mixture of grain alcohol and juniper berry oil, originally concoted by a 17th-century Dutch medical professor to treat kidney disorders.

Gin and water is the soure of all my inspiration - Lord Byron

For someone who's supposed to be busy......

I'm on here a lot, today.

A question for those of you more familiar with LJ than I --

What does it mean when some friends in a person's list are in bold script? Mine are all "regular" and uniform but I've seen lists where a third of them are bold and the rest "regular".