Tickle me happy when Emily and I pop into Bitter & Twisted last night and spy a Vesper on the “Top 10” cocktail menu. The drink was beautifully prepared, so I had to have two! The joint was hoppin’, service was oustanding and visions of Daniel Craig are still spinning in my head! The recipe for Bond’s “Vesper” martini, as described in the 1953 book: ‘Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel.
In the movie Casino Royale, when Vesper asks Bond if he named the drink after her “because of the bitter aftertaste”, 007 replies that he named it for her, “because once you have tasted it, you won’t drink anything else.” Oh, to be a Vesper!!
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