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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
 

Question

I can think of a few cocktails named after writers, like
The Hemingway
The James Joyce
Pappy's Hot Toddy (Faulkner's own, reputed "to cure anything from a horse kick to a bad cold")
-- and you could almost make up some others, like
The Cheever (bourbon and laundry)
The Tennessee Williams (wine and a pill-bottle cap)
The Truman Capote (something fruity)
The Denis Johnson (barbiturates and whiskey and speed)
But what about writers not associated with controlled substances? Could you still name drinks after them? How would you mix, for example --
1) a Philip Roth
2) an R.K. Narayan
3) a Chaim Potok
4) a Flannery O'Connor
5) a Robertson Davies?
This boggles me, so I'm leaving Comments open.

posted by Michael Scott Moore | 8:40 PM
Comments:
Davies makes me think of a nice tawny port, for some reason.
 
Jack Kerouac: Mountain Dew and tecquila...for his time as a fire spotter.

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Flannery O'Connor:
Moonshine and milk, served with a peacock feather.
 
A Garcia Marquez: tequila, ether, guava puree, and the wings of a thousand yellow butterflies
 
These are good. I think an R.K. Narayan would just be a plain, bittersweet lassi. But what about a Philip Roth? Something liver-flavored?
 
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