Cocktail Construction

Cocktail ConstructionIt doesn't take much more than a generous hand, decent whisky, a comfortable glass and hard-frozen ice to fix an unimpeachable Scotch on the rocks. But a cocktail is something else again. It helps to know that a recipe is essentially a chemical formula, and drinks are not so much mixed as built. You want to measure ingredients as meticulously as a draftsman constructs a blueprint. It won't ruin a drink if you're a few milliliters off, but a (continued on page 274) Cocktail C...