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.
But Akunin, speaking over a gin-and-tonic in a London hotel bar, was perhaps about to disappoint some of his readers.
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.
The movie is a remorselessly downbeat version of a gin-and-tears Hollywood bio-pic.
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.
We were eating lunch in the central tent, washing down slices of tasty wood-fired pizza with glasses of gin and tonic, when a massive, six-ton bull elephant decided to crash our party.
When I arrived late on a sun-drenched Friday afternoon in June, the place was a hub of inactivity: I met a foursome whose ambitions for the evening extended to gin-and-tonics taken in Adirondack chairs on the patio, and two other guests who were wrapping up a few hours of quiet fishing from the dock.
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.
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.
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.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.
With colder months approaching, shaking up Tiki-style cocktails with more heat-packing spirits like gin, bourbon and cognac can fortify you with a belt of winter-beating warmth while also transporting you to your favorite tropical island.
Standing on Fermor's terrace, with its fragments of classical sculpture and its vertiginous view of a turquoise cove of stones, I felt as if the inhabitants of 40 years ago had momentarily gone inside for a siesta and would soon be out for a dusk-lit gin and tonic.
The appeal of other keys, meanwhile, lies in their sparse beauty: many are little more than a lone sandy outpost in gin-blue water.
In the early 18th century British agriculture turned around, grain became more plentiful, and gin at last became more palatable--though a far cry from what we know today.
As I mentioned in my previous article, but worth repeating, is that in addition to making two excellent gins (and a world-class sloe gin), Plymouth has what may very well be the best distillery tour anywhere.
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Although the short cocktail menu showcases unusual drinks like the Nice Legs -- made with gin, Barolo Chinato (an Italian digestive), Gentian (a bitter root) and orange peel -- many patrons will order a classic like an Old-Fashioned (bourbon whiskey, sugar, Angostura bitters, club soda and lemon peel) or leave their choice in the hands of the bartender.
Ben van Doesburgh, chief executive of De Kuyper Royal Distillers, a 316-year-old Dutch gin and spirits maker in Schiedam, acknowledges the common currency's benefits for business.
During an elaborate purification ceremony before the game, she poured libations of gin, danced with a boa constrictor on the 45-yard line and prayed to every deity from Jesus to Oya.
Apple, by contrast, doesn't need to give OS X a radical mobile makeover or gin together an iPad-esque tablet -- hey, it's already got the iPad.
Part mea culpa, part rallying cry, Ford is trying to gin up empathy among customers and investors through a series of four-minute films it is producing and putting up on the Web.
Spanish tapas restaurant Coqueta is offering the Oracle Cocktail (209 Gin, house-made anise tonic, elderflower, lemon, hibiscus and a splash of San Francisco fog) and a Podium Paella, made with squid ink and scallops.
Tuthilltown Spirits, a New York-based company that makes vodka, whiskey and gin, expects to produce around 8, 000 cases this year.
It was more an excuse for Soho House hotties of both sexes to hang out with a quasi-celebrity while sipping free product-placement Bombay Sapphire gin.
She wanted gin, and luckily I still had a pint flask full of it in my fleece-lined jacket pocket.
For Ian Hart, the co-founder of Sacred Spirits Company, which operates out of a north London house in the well-heeled suburb of Highgate, gin-making came about almost by accident.
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From his boat, Ridley wrote a daily blog via a solar-powered satellite phone, describing his near collision with a container ship, battles with 20-foot waves and cravings for gin and tonics.
Invented by a Dutch doctor, Franciscus de la Boe, in the mid-17th century, gin (originally called genever) was made by redistilling pure malt spirits with juniper berries.
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.
Mr. GIN RAY (Manager, Science City): (Through Translator) We want Hefei to become a top-level, high-tech city.
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