Bartenders revive classic cocktails. The law responds by reviving classic crackdowns.
On Monday, Virginia bartender Todd Thrasher helped Team USA win the Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand. (His winning cocktail involved artichoke aperitif, lime thyme syrup, and apple bitters. Suddenly those great mojitos you make don't seem so impressive, do they?) But when the sultan of swizzle sticks returns victorious to our shores, he won't find an entirely welcoming climate for his craft in the country that invented the word cocktail.
Why should I be denied the right to defile myself? The best raw oyster is worth the occasional 3-day lock-jaw.
ReplyDeleteLike the best booze, the best food is daring. I'll sign any contract, or demand contracts signed. Just let us live and eat and drink in free saturnalia.