But Akunin, speaking over a gin-and-tonic in a London hotel bar, was perhaps about to disappoint some of his readers.
The movie is a remorselessly downbeat version of a gin-and-tears Hollywood bio-pic.
Plymouth, which is a classic, versatile gin, I grew bored of, since it lacks that punch of juniper I enjoy in a gin.
Warner cites the following anecdote, from a 1736 text: A maid spent the morning in a gin shop and then returned to her master's Kensington home with a rowdy trio.
Soft-shell crab with a hazelnut salad, fried oysters with a green-chile-buttermilk dressing, a gin-and-tonic salmon with a subtle juniper aroma: these were creative combinations not often seen on New York menus.
It was the brainchild of Sir Alec Issigonis who came up with his ingenious idea while sipping on a gin in a hotel in Cannes -- a very civilized approach to engineering.
Though he encountered his share of racism--at one Friar event the chancellor's wife assumed he was a waiter and ordered him to fetch her a gin and tonic--he also had his share of opportunities.
After a fireside gin and tonic and a dinner of dal bhat, or lentil soup and rice.
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.
Indeed, when reformers made it illegal to sell gin without a license, gin sellers responded with the "puss and mew, " a bit of mechanical fakery masquerading as an 18th-century vending machine.
The White Horse is a former gin palace and coaching inn on Parsons Green, which invites a diverse clientele with its friendly atmosphere.
Since I happen to have some experience throwing these things together, I sat down last night for a brainstorming session, armed with nothing more than a pen, a notebook, a bottle of gin, and a lime wedge.
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"You have a beautiful gin martini ruined by some cheap olives, " Mr. Palazzi says.
Well, that is until you retire at the end of the day to one of the reserves luxury tented lodges for a sunset gin and tonic.
Each day, I rode my bicycle around, exploring the area and returning toward sundown to the hotel, where I had the bartender make me a dry gin martini with olives.
He guides if you request his services--and you should, because he is an encyclopedia of animal behavior, provokes intellectual and mischievous dinner conversations, and fixes a fine gin and tonic.
Born Morris Holt to Mississippi farmers in August 1937, Slim gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing a finger in a cotton gin accident when he was 13.
And, if so inclined, a tumbler of gin, whisky or brandy as a nightcap.
You leave the shop not only with a free bottle of gin, but also with a cash gift.
You need only a fraction of that if you can gin up a virtual supercomputer from thousands of cheap computers.
London had the equivalent in a rage for gin that seized its poor in the 18th century.
The signature drink, a rice-gin concoction known as raksi, or aiyla, is well more than 50% alcohol and costs just 40 Nepali rupees for a double shot.
Soon the British were producing their own gin, though a shortage of grain meant that they literally had to make the stuff from hogwash at first. (It tasted awful.) In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful and gin became more palatable, though a far cry from what we know today.
Some grew out of other operations: Rogue, from Oregon, makes gin, rum and whiskey, but is better known for its line of craft beers, just as Anchor, a San Francisco brewery, began making a first-rate Junipero gin and Old Potrero rye only after a century of brewing beer.
This posits that there is a tradeoff between economic growth and inflation: that to gin up an economy a central bank must print more money (which eventually leads to more inflation), and that to bring inflation down a central bank must tighten money (which slows down the economy).
Alice settled in a refugee camp in Kenya, a greying barfly drinking gin and Coke.
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