The Martini
David, 2015-05-05
12:35
A number of decades ago, I was lured away from gin by
other liquors; namely whiskey,
bourbon, and other non-clear libations. There were no martinis and no gin
and tonics in my cocktail repertoire. Back in the day, I used to go out
and have 3 or 4 martinis, and have a good time. Sometimes, someone at
work would bring a bottle of Bombay Sapphire gin and we’d sit around the
kitchen after our shifts ended, drinking cold martinis and eating leftover
food from the evening service. (Actually, the line cooks only drank.
After being around sugar, eggs, and butter all day, we pastry people
gorged on anything that had vinegar, meat, or salt in it with our
drinks.)
 Other
nights we’d go to places like the wacky Persian Aub Zam
Zam where the owner
would kick anybody out who: 1) Ordered anything other than a gin martini,
and 2) Wanted to sit at a table. He thought, rightly, that you should
only drink at the bar – and seated. To this day, I refuse to drink a
cocktail standing up, and do whatever I can to sit at a bar when enjoying
a cocktail. There was also a place in San Francisco called Bix, where
martini glasses were upturned on a big silver tub of crushed ice, ready
and waiting to be filled with ice-cold martinis that we liked as well.
 I
don’t remember exactly when I stopped drinking martinis but I do remember
someone telling me that you shouldn’t drink gin if you ever plan on
having plastic surgery because it does something to your skin. I know it
sounds crazy, (that gin affects your skin, not that I would want to have
plastic surgery…although I reserve the right to change my mind in
the future) but that may have been a factor all the same. Another was
that I started feeling not-so-great, and completely dehydrated, in the
middle of the night after a couple of martinis – which is why I don’t
drink much red wine anymore, because it has the same effect.
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