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DEL.ICIO.USAre Flirty Cocktails Passe?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s been a lot of change in cocktails in the past ten years. The whole pink drink fling seems to be waning, making way for first gin, and now tequila, to make big comebacks. Vodka, the one-taste-fits-all spirit, is taking a backseat to stiffer cocktails made the old-fashioned way, but with modern twists.
Retro cocktails — the kind that Nick and Nora Charles would have stirred up — are back and being served at places like the Globe, C & S Seafood and Oyster Bar and Restaurant Eugene. What do you think of these everything-old-is-new-again cocktails? Where’s your favorite place to sip one?
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By Fulton County Mom
August 9, 2007 1:12 PM | Link to this
Well, I gave up the imports for Bud Select….I stopped the ‘umbrella’ drinks in favor of that backseat Vodka straight up….I also favor Crown & Ginger, JD (up or w/Coke) or Southern Comfort. Rum should be mixed with something…and Tequila w/o the Rita will eat your gut.
If that means I am starting to be ‘hip’ somebody tell my kids!
By Darin
August 9, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this
Speaking of Nick & Nora, I think that my love of old movies makes this new fascination with old-fashioned drinks really attractive to me. I loved it in North by Borthwest when Cary Grant orders a Gibson - I had to look it up to see what it was.
Gin is the way to go for martinis and many other cocktails. I don’t know what’s going through James Bond’s head when he insists on martinis being made with vodka.
I’m really into the Half & Half right now: equal parts gin and dry vermouth with a liberal splash of orange bitters.