Some writers drink to calm the world. Others drink to taste more clearly. In the smoke salons in Paris, the rear rooms of the London clubs, or the Caribbean nights, cocktails have long have been a comrade for many writers – as rituals, rebellion or reward.
Below is a tour through eight of the best literature in literature, and the drinks that fed its genius.
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald – the dreamer of the jazz era
- Favorite drink: Ricky jinn (jinn 60 ml, juice of half lime, top with soda water. Served over ice in a high cup)
- Basic reading: Great Gatsby
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are selected practically Prohibition The party scene. While champagne flows freely GatsbyFitzgerald himself was part of the jinn, believing that its smell was more difficult to discover (which did not deceive much). The jinn has become a light, a tart, and a tart, and Dania – one of its signatures. The available drinks for Gatsby are described as they appear from the delicate air:
“A tray of cocktails floats to us through the twilight and sat on a table with the two girls in yellow and three men, each one gave us Mr. Mumment”
2. Dorothy Parker – with development
- Favorite drink: Martini (60 ml of dry London, dry, 10 ml, stir with snow and cosmetic in a cold coupe. Equipment with lemon or olive development)
- Basic reading: Enough rope (hair), Dorothy Parker portable
The tenant is often sharpened in the round table book in Algonquin, the pre -rhetoric in Parker and Hallabah. A verse is the most quoted saying everything:
“I would like to get Martini,
Two at most.
Three, I am under the table,
Four, I am under my host. “
Parker Martini made dry in an attachment of intellectual flirtation and feminine challenge.
3. Ernest Hemingway – Sharp accuracy
- Favorite drink: Daiquiri, or Double Pope (60 ml of white rum, lemon juice 15 ml, grapefruit juice 15 ml, 5 ml marashino issues.
- Basic reading: The sun also rises
Hemingway often appeared cocktails in his writings, as he was subjected to some drinks and even its creation. For example, Jack Rose appears – a mixture of Applejack, Lemon or Lime Juice and Grenadine – The sun also rises As a drink enjoyed by characters. Like many famous writers of his day, Hemingway loved himself, the beverages that were strong, stripped, strict.
“My Mojito in La Bodeguita, My Daiquiri at El Floridita.”
It was known for the customization of Daiquiri in a non -sugar version, known as Double potatoes At Florida Bar in Havana. Then the Maraschino Liqueur and the grapefruit juice added, which created Hemingway Special.
4.
- Favorite drink: All that is confused Jeeves
- Basic reading: Download, Jeffice
In the world of Wodehouse’s comic, not only cocktails appear like libations, but as Solutions. The book Berte Woster offers an unharmed that corresponds to permanently in romantic adventures, and often saves his fixed service, Jeffice.
However, the most male cocktail appears to be “whiskey and night black”-a classic mixture of any spirit called “high ball”.
“Harsh, Jeffice. Not a lot of soda, but spraying Al -Brandi a little.”
Perte is often seen searching for condolences in his evening cocktail – and in the treatment of notorious Jeeves, a mixture of reconciliation ambiguity that may include or does not include Worlestershire sauce and red pepper.
5. Ian Fleming – danger in a cup
- Favorite drink: Vesper Martini (GIN 60ml GIN, 20 ml of Vodka, 10 ml Lillet Blanc – a modern alternative to Kina Lillet.
- Basic reading: Royal Casino
Perhaps everyone knows the phrase “shaking, do not move”, but in Royal CasinoJames Bond drink is the most famous cocktail instruction in literature:
“Three metrics of Gordon, one of the vodka, half a scale of Kina Lillet. Rib it very well until it becomes snowy, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel.”
Invented Royal Casino (1953), Martini Vesper is smooth, strong and deliberate – exactly like Bond. As far as the book goes, Fleming’s personal tastes formed spying, mixing accuracy and indulgence in the iconic drinking rituals.
6. Evelyn Wu – deviation in camouflage
- Favorite drink: Brande Alexander (30 ml Brande, 30 ml de Cocao cream, cream 30 ml. Shake with snow and pressure in the coupe. Equipment with grated nutmeg)
- Basic reading: Reconsider BRIDESHEAD
The world of the world of English Ristorcracy is fueled by denial, beauty and brown sweets in liquid form. Brande Alexander – Ghani, Cream, a little ridiculous – fit Reconsider BRIDESHEAD Like a velvety glove. The character Anthony Blanche asks “Four Alexander Cocktail” during a night outside with Charles Ryder and receive this line:
“Two of you and two for me. Yum. Day.
The indulgence in the drink reflects Sebastian Fly’s abuses, which carries a bear to Oxford and drinks himself slowly in ruin.
Wake was drunk drunk, thanks to the creation Dhahra referenceThat has one huge shot of the jinn, half a liter of Guinness, some ginger beer.
7. Truman Capot – Magic and Shampia
- Favorite drink: Gold screwdriver (60 ml of vodka, orange juice 90 ml, sugar drink 5 ml, and 3 beer stations)
- Basic reading: Breakfast in Tiffany
I love the cocktails that followed the line between elegance and harm. in Breakfast in TiffanyHolly Golatte Cocktail is a white angel at the beginning of the story, which is described as “something new … half of the vodka, half of the jinn, and not Fermouth”-mainly (strong) from Martini.
He promised me one thing: Do not take me home until I am really very drunk.“
Cocktles in Capote are similar to masks – they help characters become those who want to be, even if they are only in the evening.
8.
- Favorite drink: Any is strong, such as vodka Martini (60 ml of vodka, 10 ml, dry viroths.
- Basic reading: Daily drinking
Kingsley amis was not only a novelist – he was a cocktail artist, as he produced some of the best (and funny) of the alcohol -published alcohol. He merged his literary brain with unrecognized attention, and defends everything from morning to the evening holes.
“A suitable drink in time – one man’s opinion – is one of the great human pleasures.”
Take his drinks seriously – and wrote about them with both rigor and taste.
9.
- Favorite drink: GIN Pahit or GIN Sling (GIN 45ML, 15 ml of cherry or pydictene, lemon juice 10 ml, Angostora’s impulse, top with soda water. Served on the ice in long glass with lemon wheel)
- Basic reading: The man is in a salonand Casuarina tree
One of our region The colonial writersMAGHAM stories are revealed in colonial sites in Southeast Asia, where the evening cocktail was less than leniency and more about endurance. The row of the jinn at sunset, and the whiskey soda under the Whirring fan – in its world, the cocktails were the temporary stores against boredom and isolation, and it rises slowly while the tropical regions were regret. During the height of Maugham, the jinn ropes became known as Singapore Sling (with small adjustments).
“The first -class passengers rode without a target from the surface of the slope. Most of the men who made the smoking room and sought to encourage themselves with whiskey, soft drinks and fetus.”
Final elites
These writers not only wrote about cocktails – they lived in their glow. For some, drinking was joy or elegance. For others, escape. But in all cases, the cocktail becomes a symbol: an age, mood, self.
So the next time you mix a drink, raise a cup to these literary myths. Perhaps, perhaps only, start the next great novel.
