QotD: Shaken not stirred
What's your favorite drink or cocktail? What's in it?
Question submitted by charm.vox.com
I love manhattans. Someone once told me that a “real” manhattan contains Canadian whiskey (which is just…weird) but I've always concocted them with:
- 2 jiggers of Bourbon
- 1 jigger of sweet vermouth
- 1 cherry, 2 if I'm feeling saucy
Why? Because that's how my mom makes them, and it is from her that my manhattan obsession sprung.
For as long as I can remember, manhattans have been my mom's drink. Usually, she and my dad would have a glass of wine in the evening, but often–particularly on those bad days we all have–she'd have a “bomb”.
Burgeoning alco-philiac that I was, I'd often take a small sip and then breathe fire for a few minutes. Back then, they tasted awful (oh how that would change). But one thing I loved was the cherry. My mom hated them and never included them at home, but at a restaurant, after she was done with her drink, I'd fish out her booze-soaked cherry. They were wonderful.
It was the memory of those booze-soaked cherries, I think, that prompted me to try a manhattan again years later. It's been love ever since.
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