Word: vermouths
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Reinhart is "housefather" in Winona's luxury apartment, sipping a vermouth cassis-he has forsaken his customary tumblers of bourbon-and garnering a local reputation for the classical cuisine. Hired by high-powered Grace Greenwood to demonstrate gourmet-food preparation in supermarkets, he is shocked to discover that the executive gorgon is Winona's lesbian lover. Blaine's wife has an erotic nervous breakdown in Reinhart's bedroom. Genevieve returns to stage a breakdown of her own. Helen Clayton, his supermarket assistant, bolsters Reinhart's flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse...
Meantime, Carter has stirred the martini lovers, admittedly depleted since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, a two-before-dinner man whose evening blending (4 parts gin, 1 part vermouth) was a dramatic triumph...
...social event, as well as a political jamboree of uncertain result. Several of Parliament's 378 new members are in fact well-known faces who will add a glow of celebrity to the legislatures. From Turin, for instance, comes Count Luigi Rossi di Montelra, Christian Democrat Deputy and vermouth empire executive (Martini & Rossi), who was kidnaped three years ago; the Count won public accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded...
...class members drank a lot, Murphy said, considering that most of them are 72 years old. "A lot asked for doubles, and when they asked for martinis they wanted very little vermouth in them," he said...
...baldness cure.) Without herbs, the world would not have that honored amorific, the martini. Coriander seed is not only used as a spicy seasoning but is also reputed to be an erotic stimulant and is used to flavor gin. And Artemisia, or wormwood, is an essential ingredient of vermouth. Martinis may not have been served at King Arthur's court, but wormwood undoubtedly found its way into the royal flagons. In the permissive Middle Ages, Artemisia was known ambivalently as Lad's Love and Maiden's Ruin...