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...piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage-cost...
...President Félix Gouin's state luncheon, Ernie Bevin tried to link the nations with a "peace cocktail": one-half English gin, one-quarter Russian vodka and one-quarter French vermouth. Gastronomically, at least, things were vastly improved: Gouin's guests ate homard parisienne, poularde du Mans à la broche, pommes noisettes, asperges de Lauris-sauce mousseline, fromages, parfait Grand Marnier, mignardises, accompanied by white Burgundy, red Bordeaux, champagne, coffee, . Armagnac, Benedictine and Cointreau...
...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...
...spent very little myself: i.e., only 400 francs for room, 135 francs for lunch and dinner, about 200 francs in necessary tips, except before dinner when I invited two business friends to the room for a drink. Somebody had given me a bottle of vermouth and the headwaiter assured me he could furnish a bottle of gin to make some Martinis. When the waiter arrived with the gin he asked me if I would mind paying for it in cash. I said I would be glad to and how much was it? 2000 francs! So this little bit of hospitality...
France and Italy no longer export vermouth to the U. S. Result: a tremendous boost to the U. S.'s infant vermouth industry. From a production of 164,747 gallons for the year ended June 30, 1937, domestic vermouth output has been trebled this year. With stocks approaching the vanishing point, Californians and New Yorkers have had a $2,000,000-a-year business dumped in their laps...