Remember the martini marathon? … Wait… What do you mean, “no”?!
Seriously, you should check it out here and then come back :). For the others who don’t want to read/drink 21 awesome posts, here’s a quick recap:
In October 2011, I had a nice, well-merited month of vacation. During this time off, I made (and savored) a different martini each day! It was a lot of fun and I discovered some very cool drinks. The important thing you need to know is that the first cocktail in my list was the Martinez, considered by many to be the father of the martini as we know it. A little research around the web will teach you widely different stories about the Martinez as nobody can agree on its real inventor. The most probable story tells that the cocktail was created in the 1860’s by Jerry Thomas for a traveler waiting for a ferry going to the city of Martinez.
Well anyway, the problem for me wasn’t the mysterious history behind this old cocktail. It turns out the Martinez uses an obscure ingredient, the Maraschino Liqueur, that is not easy to find and practically impossible to get for a Canadian living in the province of Québec (like me). Here’s the story of how I finally got to make a Martinez, in seven epic chapters! 😉 I hope that my struggles to find this precious spirit bottle teach you a thing or two about the importance of ingredients.
The Bosstopus 