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Edition: 1st Format: Bargain Price Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: June 04, 1997 Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This first-of-its-kind volume features over 200 ways to make classic and nouveau martinis plus a directory of the world's best martini lounges. Here, readers will discover the finer points of gin versus vodka, olive versus twist, shaken versus stirred, as well as brands of liquor, ratios of ingredients and every facet of this highly ritualized and specific cocktail. Also included are looks at and recipes for the weird and wonderful new offspring of the martini renaissance: chocolate and espresso martinis, the Cajun Combustion Engine, Martini Navratilova, Very Berry Martini, Pasini Express, Berlin Station Chief and many more. With sidebars featuring quotes from literature, toasts and historical points of interest, plus photos recalling great martini moments in film, politics, culture and advertising, Shaken Not Stirred is a fabulous celebration of a classic and very au courant international tradition. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A great introduction to a great drink!This book not only has some great recipes for varied martinis in it (I think I hear my gin calling me now!) but it gives great history and background to the drink and the ingredients and the characters and places that have made the martini an example of elegance and simplicity in potables! Get it, find a recipe, make one up, then sit down and sip and read more. Rating: - FabulousA wonderful intrduction to the world of the martini with hints and tips on subtle variations. We're already planning trips to the martini lounges listed..... Rating: - Really fun read...This is a great little book. It has great martini recipes as well as martini-stories from the authors and others... martini lore, history. Totally fun if your into the martini thing. The recipes were fun and interesting..some a bit too esoteric for me...but I liked reading them anyway. And like that they are interspersed with the text instead of in a separate recipe section. There are some fun martini quotes too.. The only drawback, I think, and its minor..is that I just ... Read More Rating: - Shake shake shake, shake shake shake......shake your 'tini? I was pleased to receive this book recently as a gift and couldn't wait to peel back the front cover and begin seeing what it had in stock for me. The book was a perfect companion as I'd just gotten a set of 4 martini glasses and a shaker/strainer and was eager to put them to good use. But since my nose was too buried in this concise little text, I didn't have any need for the hardware yet. Since "Shaken Not Stirred" also offered conventional and more modern drink ... Read More Rating: - Dean Martin would be proud!!!!!I don't consider myself to be a big drinker, but the Martini is so cool and this book represents it in every aspect. It's just a really cool book to leave around the apartment so people can spy it when they drop by. I'm going to find one of those Martini lounges! 
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