http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/di...tml?ref=dining

"literary critic Bernard DeVoto wrote a curious book, “The Hour: A
Cocktail Manifesto.” First published in 1948, it has long been
regarded as a classic, one of the first attempts to formulate a
philosophy of the cocktail. It has been out of print for decades, but
Tin House Books has just reissued it, and now, modern readers can
recapture that moment from the middle of last century, when
calibrating a martini was theology, not mixology."


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Mr. DeVoto (his name describes him perfectly) sounds as if he would
fit right in this group along with those here who sneer at others for
liking something they deem 'disgusting'...... ;-)