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.
But Akunin, speaking over a gin-and-tonic in a London hotel bar, was perhaps about to disappoint some of his readers.
In America meditation was judged to be just the tonic for a variety of people ranging from underperforming executives to recidivist prisoners.
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.
In Thailand he discovered the benefits of a syrupy tonic drink sold in pharmacies as a revitalizing agent.
No commodity super-cycles in sight is a tonic for low inflation and comfortably cruising price-earnings ratios.
"I walked in and it was like a tonic for the information age, " Willett says.
Declining unemployment will be a tonic available in small but increasing doses in 2011.
By happenstance, a Blendax licensee in Thailand named Chaleo Yoovidhya also owned a tonic drink company.
For starters, the cash will be something of a tonic to your traumatized employees, vendors, customers, creditors and banks.
For them, the bracing mountain air was regarded as a tonic more potent than almost any other.
Weaving through calming woodland and across open grassland on gently winding singletrack trails is a tonic to the heat and hurry of the city.
His visible intelligence and apparent humility make him a tonic on television.
Mateschitz floated the notion of introducing a tonic drink in the West.
When its owner wants to walk, it sends out what is called a tonic signal ordering forward movement and the spine does the rest.
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"20 years and 100-200 million dollars of public funds have identified this iron tonic solution as a way to restore the productivity of the ocean, " he said.
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.
In the short run it would probably be a bit of a tonic for bank stock prices and equity markets, but it doesn't do anything to solve the problem of the euro crisis at all.
All residents, both in the apartments and the hotel, have access to the Cowshed Spa and gym, rooftop pool, Cookhouse restaurant, House Tonic bar and a screening room, but the apartments offer extra amenities such as grocery delivery and a fully stocked kitchen, as well as reduced rates for longer stays.
Various wellness programs -- detox, stress and burnout, yoga, sleep enhancement -- are provided among palm trees and boulders, a perfect tonic for pent up bitterness.
Mr. Obama's plan, as if designed by Rip Van Winkle, is blind to this major shift and is thus a weak tonic for the flagging economic recovery.
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The victory was be sweet revenge for Blackburn, who lost 5-0 at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League, and a real tonic for manager Sam Allardyce as he recovers from heart surgery.
On February 18, 2009, Eric Holder offered a similarly tonic and provocative commentary on race when he begged us to cease from our cowardice and come out from our racial cocoons to confront the business at hand.
That's why she's working with Georgetown's cancer clinics to roll out a tablet app called Tonic that aims to make the intake of patient information feel less like a chore.
But in the short term the only bright spots were America and in France, where a campaign to promote cognac as a long drink (with tonic, which is not, unlike soda water or ginger ale, really a natural accompaniment) raised sales for the second year running.
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.
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