007教你调制马提尼
Can you imagine James Bond asking for a chocolate butterscotch martini, or an apple martini, lemon drop martini or prickly pear martini? Unlikely for the suave superspy.
你能想象詹姆斯·邦德点一杯巧克力奶油糖果马提尼,或一杯苹果马提尼、柠檬马提尼、又或者是仙人掌果马提尼的情景吗?对于这个温文尔雅的超级间谍来说似乎不大可能。
Putting a drink in a longstemmed V-shaped glass does not make it a martini. A martini is this: gin and dry vermouth. And maybe an olive or two. Or a twist of lemon peel. It is ice cold and crystal clear, not green or pink.
不是说将酒倒入V 形高脚玻璃杯就是马提尼。马提尼应该是这样的:杜松子酒和涩苦艾酒混合,还可以装饰一两个橄榄,或一片柠檬皮。它应该口感冰爽,颜是无透明的,而不是呈绿或粉。
A martini recipe appears as early as 1882 in a bartender’s manual, although in addition to gin and vermouth, it calls for sweet syrup. Over the years, the martini got drier and drier.
马提尼的调制方法早在1882 年就出现在一个调酒师的调制手册中,但是除了杜松子酒和苦艾酒外,他还要求加入糖浆。不过这些年来,马提尼越来越不甜了。
A martini defined cool and modern. 1950s jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond said he wanted the sound of a dry martini. Just listen to his composition Take Five.
马提尼代表着酷和新潮。20 世纪50 年代的爵士萨克斯管吹奏者保罗·戴斯蒙说他想要他的乐曲听起来像干马提尼,听听他创作的曲子《休息五分钟》吧。
From roughly the same era, the TV show Mad Men is careful with period details, so many of the characters drink martinis at bars, cocktail parties or when they get off the train from Manhattan. Mad Men also shows the downside of the three-martini lunch style: car crashes, failed marriages, lost jobs.
因为讲的大概是同一个时代的事,电视剧《广告狂人》非常注重那一时代的细节,因此许多角在酒吧、鸡尾酒会或者下了来自曼哈顿的火车时都喝马提尼。《广告狂人》还展示了三巡马提尼酒午餐生活方式的没落:车祸、婚姻失败和失业。
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The martini’s star faded in the late 1960s and ’70s with opposition to expense account dining rising, health food stores gaining on liquor stores and the popularity of other mind-altering substances.
由于对日益增多的公费吃喝现象的反对、保健食品店的生意逐渐超过酒类专卖店,以及其他麻痹神经的替代品的流行,马提尼在20 世纪60 年代末和70 年代逐渐淡出人们的生活。
Classic cocktails made a comeback in the 1980s, and things began to run amok. Frou-frou-tinis featuring flavored vodka, fruit purees, even bacon bits have become common in raucous bars with loud music. All wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude.
传统鸡尾酒在20 世纪80 年代又重新流行,可是却变得面目全非。添加了调味伏特加、果浆,甚至培根粒的“女士马提尼”在放着吵闹音乐的喧闹酒吧中成为“主角”。与作家E.B. 怀特对马提尼是“平静的万灵丹”的形容完全不相符。
Vocabulary:
1. 在《007》系列电影中,詹姆斯·邦德(James Bond)的一句经典台词是“vodka martini – shaken, not stirred”。在一些地方,一瓶通过摇和法调制而成的马提尼甚至被称为“詹姆斯·邦德马提尼(Martini James Bond)”。
2. suave a . 温文的,文雅的。
3. three-martini lunch: 三巡马提尼酒午餐,即长时间的含酒精饮料的商务午餐。
4. run amok = run amuck,失去控制,四处胡作非为。
5. raucous a . 喧闹的,闹腾的。
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