2009 World Bartender Championship, March 2010

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abcbartending.com The owner of ABC Bartending School, Tony Sylvester, opened his first classroom in 1977, and the rest is now history. ABC is one of the largest bartender training establishments in the nation with locations from coast to coast throughout the United States. The Sylvester family has been in the hospitality industry for three generations. Tony brings you all that experience in his school’s curriculum and manual. ABC Bartending School 7329 W Flagler St Miami, FL 33144 (305) 267-1446 abcbartending.com

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The martini is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth, and garnished with an olive or a lemon twist. Over the years, the martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. HL Mencken called the martini “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet” and EB White called it “the elixir of quietude” Pouring all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes, the ingredients are mixed then strained and served “straight up” (without ice) in a chilled cocktail glass and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of lemon (a strip of the peel, usually squeezed or twisted to express volatile oils onto the surface of the drink). Although there are many variations, in modern practice the standard martini is a mix of gin coupled with dry vermouth usually in a five-to-one ratio. Shaker mixing is common due to influences of popular culture, notably the fictional spy James Bond, who always asked for his vodka martini to be “shaken, not stirred”. However, stirring has a long history. Harry Craddock’s Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) prescribes stirring for all its martini recipes. Noel Coward suggested that a perfect martini should be made by “filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy”, meaning the less vermouth added to the gin the better the resulting drink. The dryness of a martini refers to the amount of vermouth used in the drink, with a very dry martini having little or no Vermouth. Conversely, a wet martini has a significant …

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2009 World Bartender Championship, March 2010

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Ray Nauroth, 98, has worked the bar at the Gold Slipper steakhouse in Dunlap, Ia., since 1967. Here he demonstrates the making of one of his signature drinks, the grasshopper, an after-dinner ice cream drink.

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