Shaken and Stirred
Subtitle: Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures
Publisher: Collins
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780060740443
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverage; Cooking / Wine; Beverages - Wine & Spirits; Cooking; Essays; Drinking customs; Cooking / Essays; Beverages - General; Alcoholic beverages; Anecdotes; Cocktails
First sentence: I DRANK MY FIRST COCKTAIL WHEN I WAS SIX, in the mid-twentieth century, when martinis were sacramental and the cocktail hour, or the "violet hour," as Ian Fleming calls it in one of the James Bond novels, was a moment of prayer, poised like a thin chilled glass to the lips between the mortal pressures of the day and the infinity of night.