Drink Special
2018; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/07402775-6894921
ISSN1936-0924
ResumoResearch Article| March 01 2018 Drink Special: The Fellow Traveler World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 118. https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-6894921 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Drink Special: The Fellow Traveler. World Policy Journal 1 March 2018; 35 (1): 118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-6894921 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsWorld Policy Journal Search Advanced Search “If there has ever been a cocktail that’s about international affairs, it would be the Vesper, which is the cocktail that was invented for Ian Fleming prior to the publication of Casino Royale in 1953. (Its namesake, Vesper Lynd, is a colleague of James Bond’s at M16, and, we eventually learn, a Russian double agent.) The Vesper is just one of a set of cocktails that are variations on martinis—and no drink is more associated with foreign policy than martinis. You have the Gibson martini (substitute the olive for a pickled cocktail onion) and the Buckeye (garnish with a black olive), but the radical aspect of the Vesper is that there’s a combination of vodka and gin—so, the spirit of England versus the spirit of Russia. There’s a tension there between East and West. For this drink I was trying to imagine deeper intrigue, so I started with gin and... You do not currently have access to this content.
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