Posts Tagged ‘Drinks’
If Martinis aren’t the drink for you, try “The Manhattan Project.”
• 2 ½ oz Santa Fe Spirits’ Silver Coyote Whisky – hard to get outside New Mexico, so substitute your favorite rye or bourbon • ½ oz sweet vermouth • ½ oz Chartreuse • 2 dashes bitters (Angostura is the tradition) Stir for 30 seconds with ice, strain into 2 chilled cocktail glasses. Garnish with a maraschino cherry – a…
Read MoreOppenheimer’s Legendary Martini or “The Manhattan Project”
J. Robert Oppenheimer was said to have existed on “martinis, coffee, and cigarettes” when he was directing the Allies efforts to build the bomb in World War Two. Many crucial formulas were scrawled on cocktail napkins by the leading scientists of the Manhattan Project during Oppie’s nightly martini parties at his house on Bathtub Row.
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