MARTINI COCKTAILS ORIGIN
WAR BRINGS NO SHORTAGE OF. VERMOUTH FACTORY NEAR LONDON English people who like their ver. mouth sweet need not fear a shortag# because of Italy’s entry into the war, writes “ Lucio,” in the * Manchestef Guardian.’ It can be produced any. where. There is, indeed, a vermouth, factory just outside London. The recipe for this aperitif is grape wine to which is added a mixture of aromatic herbs. Eight years ago the Turin courts bad to decide what is a Martini cocktail. It was Argued on one side that a cock, tail could only be called by that name if made with Martini vermouth. Th» other side maintained that the cocktail was invented by a barman named Martinez, who named it not merely afteF himself, but after the patron saint of New Orleans, where he worked in 1889. Martinis, who said the first Martini cocktail was served in 1877, won thft case. "
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Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 15
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154MARTINI COCKTAILS ORIGIN Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 15
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