The Philosophy of Cocktails
There’s an ineffable quality to cocktails – probably because, as Jane Peyton neatly observes, ‘they are the liquid definition of the idiom “greater than the sum of its parts”’. I rarely drink them. Not because I don’t love them but really because they’re a treat, one I associate with subterranean bars in New York or patchily recalled 21sts.
A good cocktail is ‘never just about the liquid itself’,