<p>And now to the Martini, a creation so perfect that for many, in the drinks world at least, it will likely never be surpassed. <em>“The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet”</em>, as the great American newspaperman H.L. Mencken almost certainly didn’t say.</p>

And now to the Martini, a creation so perfect that for many, in the drinks world at least, it will likely never be surpassed. “The only American invention as perfect as the sonnet”, as the great American newspaperman H.L. Mencken almost certainly didn’t say.

THE MARTINI

Jake Burger is a keen amateur cocktail historian, with a career in the drinks industry spanning four decades, as part of the team responsible for creating Jake’s Bar &amp; Grill in Leeds, The Portobello Star and The Distillery on London’s Portobello Road, and The Ginstitute, England’s preeminent educational gin experience. Jake has long sunk himself into the history of the cocktail and the mixed drink, and this
is his first book on the subject.

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Jake Burger is a keen amateur cocktail historian, with a career in the drinks industry spanning four decades, as part of the team responsible for creating Jake’s Bar & Grill in Leeds, The Portobello Star and The Distillery on London’s Portobello Road, and The Ginstitute, England’s preeminent educational gin experience. Jake has long sunk himself into the history of the cocktail and the mixed drink, and this is his first book on the subject.

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