Actually, I like all bar glasses and tools. I once owned a vintage glass shaker that one of my sisters bought for me at an antique store. It was the embodiment of 1950's cool. The glass shaker had measurements marked off in red and black. It was topped by a battered metal top and required a separate strainer to pour the cocktail through into the glass. Of course, I broke it. Now I use a stainless steel shaker that I also love. I won't break this one.
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My daughter has a martini shaker fixation,too. Looked for them in every antique store we visited, from here to St. Louis. She uses hers for martini's.
ReplyDeleteI do like a real martini. Gin or Vodka. However, they are just too strong for me. But the glass, or the shaker...well, they are a joy to hold.
DeleteSame here. What is it about bar ware? I have a collection of vintage liquor bottles with glass stoppers. They're lovely. But I don't use them, I just arrange them as glass artwork. It's the unusual stoppers that are the best part. What is that cocktail? Mine is a lemon drop made with fresh squeezed lemons, vodka and sugar..plus sugar rim, ice cold. Heaven in summer. Ahhhh.
ReplyDeleteIt is a cocktail I invented that very night. Actually, it is simply a cosmo made with pomegranate juice instead of cranberry. Your Lemon drop sounds great.
DeleteI love martinis (one olive please) and martini glasses but I never got into the shakers. Obviously I am missing something cool!
ReplyDeleteYou ARE, my sweet. Shaken, not stirred?
DeleteAs a teetotaler I wouldn't know the difference between a martini glass and a wine glass. But I feel the same way about the perfect tea mug. It needs to be just the right size and fit in my hand, just the right thickness to sip, with a delicate but sturdy handle. They do not, however, make me feel like I am misbehaving. In fact, just the opposite. Perhaps I should try my tea in a martini glass.
ReplyDeleteI double dog dare you to drink your tea in a martini glass. How daring that would be! But yes, it is all about how these iconic glasses fit in your hand.
DeleteIt has been a trend the past few years to use stemless glasses when serving alcohol. I hate that. It takes away the elegance, the mood, the sophistication of having wine or a cocktail. That is 75% of the reason to drink. Well, maybe that is an exaggeration, but I do appreciate a long, lovely stemmed glass.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you.
DeleteThe glass I really prefer is the smaller one in the upper left background. Isn't it just the sweetest thing?
DeleteIt is often wise to choose the smaller glass,
DeleteWe have an ancient martini shaker that Roger inherited from his parents. It's ornately engraved metal of some kind with little crazy glasses that go with it, but not anything like an elegant martini glass. I don't drink martinis, but I sure do like a glass of red wine with dinner.
ReplyDeleteThe shaker sounds like a treasure.
DeleteDo you drink milk out of them? Just because you can!
ReplyDeleteOh, I really should. I might drink more milk.
DeleteWatching my parents mix their martinis - they had the whole Cinzano range in the cabinet (rosso, bianco and extra dry) when I was a preschooler, my mother had red nail varnish on her toes and wore silver sandals. My father often wore one these ghastly nylon polo shirts, striped and "casual". Cigarette smoke everywhere. Like a screen shot of Mad Men.
ReplyDeleteI tried the green olives and spat them out, the glace cherries (for the rosso version) were my treat.
Why do I love this so?
DeleteA Mountie had pursued a villain through northern forests for weeks. Then decided to work smarter not harder. He stopped in a clearing, took out a shaker, gin, vermouth and the rest and started to do the business... The villain rushed out from between the trees. Shouting, "No, no, stupid! Ice first, ice first!"
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to the USA for teaching me the First Law of Martinis, based on the giant versions of the cocktail then served in Howard Johnson's. Two is just short of perfection, three and you're no longer in control. How often I broke that law, how often I paid the price.
Other iron-clad laws. Martini on the rocks is for babies, for those who don't really like the drink; it weakens itself as you watch. Noilly Prat is the only vermouth. The classic is straight up with a twist. Those who require an olive are obviously hungry and should be in a hamburger joint.
Thanks for the martini rules. Happy to know them. Noilly Prat, huh? I'll be looking for it. FYI, the very last Howard Johnson restaurant was closed last year. End of an era. All that's left is a chain of discount motels.
DeleteP.S. I loved the joke.
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