…..Beeee-be-beat-Beeee-be-beat….
We interrupt the regularly scheduled pie programming to announce that Crispy’s own Jerry Brito appeared last night on NBC Nightly News.
As I drove home to watch, I pondered on the proper alcoholic drink to mark the occasion, because it is well know in the policy community that you’ve got to celebrate what you can, while you can, and alcohol is always appropriate.
The Cuba Libre? Trite and the wrong time of year.
Rye straight from the bottle? Sound in the old journalist tradition, a gustatory challenge for the consumer.
I wanted something solid, something seasonally appropriate, something evocative of the great journalists of old like Damon Runyon…
The hot Tom and Jerry?!
Perfect, except for the temperature outside… it’s just a tad too warm here in DC for the hot Tom and Jerry.
So I turned to my favorite cocktail book, The Gentleman’s Companion: An Exotic Drinking Book and being stocked with oranges settled on the classic …
The Presidente
“Now known to many but sound enough in its own right for listing in any spiritual volume”
“Put one pony each of Bacardi Gold Seal and dry French Vermouth into a bar glass with cracked ice. Donate 1 tsp of grenadine and the same of curacao. Stir and serve in a Manhattan glass with a scarlet cherry for garnish. Finally twist a curl of yellow orange peel over the top so that the oil strikes the surface of the drink, then drop the peel in.”
Such a drink in hand and Jerry’s appearance made watching the evening news almost tolerable. Nice work, Jerry!
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Jackson
