Pan Galactic Gargle-Blaster
(from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams)

vodka
slice of lemon
brick.

Who was the winner of this challenge? Is there going to be a follow-up post?

I unfortunately don't have a recipe just yet, but I thought I'd share this - shot cocktails could be served in these lovely little glasses!

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What about a Myrtle from the Great Gatsby! Take one blood orange. Crush it under the wheel of your car. Place in glass, add crushed ice (to look like a smashed windshield), drizzle with simple syrup (cause she was), cover wreckage carelessly with whiskey!!!!!

The Virgin Suicides

Macerate 5 cherries in a cocktail glass. Add one ounce of peach schnapps (babes love it).

Cat’s Cradle

1/2 banana, peeled and cut into chunks
1 ounce canned sweet cream of coconut
3 ounces pineapple juice
2 ounces dark rum
1 teaspoon lime juice
Grenadine and coconut shavings

Put the bananas, coconut cream, pineapple juice, rum, and lime juice in a blender. Blend until very smooth. Rim a hurricane glass with grenadine and coconut shavings. Put nine ice cubes (it must be nine) in the glass. Share the drink with your granfallon, but make sure to never, under any circumstance, touch your lips to the ice.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Ingredients:
Whatever Dickie Greenleaf is drinking.

"The Wasteland"

12 oz. Vodka
1 garbage can

I said, Marie,
Marie, line up 12 shot glasses. And down we went.

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter noon
Pour thy vodka evenly into these twelve glasses,
one for every hour.

Now drink them. One after the other.
The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide.

Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow!

Breakfast of champions (Kurt Vonnegut) OR Grapes of Wraith
Muddled grapes
1 oz O.J. (fresh squeeze) 2oz Cachaca
1.5 oz Tomato Juice 2 tsp baking sugar
2 oz Rhum auricle crushed ice
.5 demetry's bloody mary mix 1 brandied grape garnish
.5 soy sauce
.25 siracha
2 dashes absinthe
2 dashes tobasco
rim with salt and smoked paprika.

MINT SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Best ever end of evening revival. I'm certain the Bard used this to inspire at least a few late night sonnets.
Yes, this is a Hot Coffee Drink, invented by me in Palm Beach, Florida way back in Dec 1986! So don't say it sounds like a winter drink. It was 72 out that night. Try it outside on the patio of your favorite lounge just before closing.
1 oz Brandy *
1 oz Frangelica (no cheap substitutes please)
1 oz Creme de Cacao (not chocolate liquor, it's too sweet)
4-6 oz Hot Coffee (dark roast preferred)
2-3 T fresh whip cream (not stuff out of a pre-mix spray can unless it's real cream and less sweet)
Drizzle Green Creme de Menthe, but seriously I mean drizzle, put your finger over the pour spout and just drip it to create nice green pattern on the whip cream. It should not overpower the other flavors.
*Brandy -- pick your choice or what's available but it better be a quality brand; Irish is ok. Good Bourbon works. Some like Cognac. But not scotch or blended whiskey either.

Lucy's First Kiss
BOOK: A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. FORSTER*
To Brits fell in love in Florence, their lips first met in a field of violets...

1.5 oz. Martin Miller's Gin
3/4 oz. Martini Bianco
1/2 oz. Parfait Amour
1/4 oz. lemon juice

Make 2. Garnish with a kiss.

Lucy's First Kiss
BOOK: A ROOM WITH A VIEW by EM FORESTER
To Brits fell in love in Florence, their lips first met in a field of violets...

1.5 oz. Martin Miller's Gin
3/4 oz. Martini Bianco
1/2 oz. Parfait Amour
1/4 oz. lemon juice

Make 2. Garnish with a kiss.

It's late but here's mine.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

3/4 oz Lime Juice
1/2 cup Orange Juice
1/2 cup Pineapple Juice
1/2 cup Grapefruit Juice
1 1/2 oz Gosling's Gold Rum
1 1/2 oz Gosling's Black Seal Rum
1 1/2 oz 151 Demerara Rum
1/2 oz Curacao
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 tsp Grenadine
ice

MethodCombine ingredients, shake on ice and serve on the rocks in a cocktail glass with raw sugar on the rim. Garnish with fresh mint.

Tried a slight variation of this at dinner party in Germany (where they can drink) while expat there and the party lasted about 1 hour because everyone was snockkered almost immediately.

George Gavaras

The Black Beauty. Because it is both bitter and sweet

Can of cold original Guinness
Scoop of vanilla ice cream
Peycheauch orange bitters - just One drop
One drop vanilla extract.
A few swirls of bittersweet chocolate sauce

1. Pour Guinness
2. Drop of each extracts
3. Swirl in chock
4. Top with ice cream
5. Wait 30 seconds
6. Enjoy

The Cocktail Peter Rabbit

1 part chamomile tea, sweetened and chilled
2 parts carrot juice

Pour over ice in an old fashion glass or serve warm to soothe an achy tummy.
(Float 1 oz of rum before serving. You have to have a little bit of fun mixed in after all)

Bonfire of the Vanities
Take a bottle of Dom Perignon and serve it to swine.

Grapes of Wrath
Make an ordinary vodka Screwdriver (orange juice and vodka on the rocks). Float 151 proof rum on top and set it afire.

Sloelita

A candy-coated concoction whose sweetness belies its disastrous effects.

2 oz sloe gin
Dash maraschino
Dash Creme de violette
1/2 oz lemon juice

Shake with abandon and strain into iced martini glass. Drink quickly, regret it, and repeat.

TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD

This is what I imagine Scout and Jem, as adults, might drink one summer evening on the porch of their childhood home, reliving old memories after stumbling upon a dusty bottle of tequila in the pantry. (Though I haven't quite reconciled why Atticus may have fancied Tequila, but life's a mystery, right?)

3 ounces lemonade
2 ounces peach nectar
1 ounce good-quality white/clear tequila
Garnish (optional): Lemon wheel or sprig of mint or peach slice (sliced from middle, halfway upward, and placed on rim)

Mix lemonade, peach nectar and tequila in a cocktail shaker and pour over crushed or cracked ice. Garnish if desired.

Serves 1.

"Levin"
This cocktail is inspired by my love for "Anna Karenina" and it's central character, Levin.

2 oz stolichnaya vodka
1 oz cucumber water
1/2 oz raw honey
Shaken over shaved ice, served in a porcelain tea cup

Finnegans Wake

1 pint Guinness Irish Stout
1 oz Jameson Irish whiskey
1 oz espresso

Pour whiskey and espresso into a pint of Guinness. Consuming multiple Finnegans Wakes will result in hours of stream-of-consciousness musings, socio-political pontifications, and possibly blindness.

Like Water for Chocolate

1 1/2 oz cognac
1/2 oz cardamaro
1/2 oz barolo chinato

Stir ingredients gently until cold. Serve chilled. Twist a bit of grapefruit over the surface and discard. Add three drops chocolate bitters. Pair with dark chocolate chunks.

Tequila Mockingbird

1 Part Patron Black
2 Parts Gerber White Grape Juice
Serve with crushed ice and lost innocence.

Dantes Inferno

1/2 oz sage gomme syrup
1 1/2 oz tequila
6-9 drops hellfire bitters
Juice from 1/2 lime

Shake ingredients.
Pour into a highball glass filled half with crushed ice (such a tease) and top with a spicy ginger beer.

Underworld (Don Delillo) heavily influenced by Greek myth of Persephone:

3 ox. gin
slight spray of dry vermouth
1 heaping tsp of fresh pomegranate seeds with juice
sprig of rosemary (for remembrance-Ophelia: Hamlet IV,V)

Robinson Crusoe

2 oz brandy
1 oz goats milk
1 oz banana syrup made with coconut water in place of water. (1:1 sugar coco water ratio, pour hot syrup.over chopped bananas and steep to taste)

Shake all ingredients and serve over crushed ice.

1. La Recherche

This heady remix of a Corpse Reviver will clear the fog of an especially unfortunate morning after, introducing floral st Germain and sprightly orange bitters to spark some faint recollection of the previous evening's "temps perdu."

1 oz cognac
1 oz calvados
1 oz Benedictine
Dash of St Germain
Dash orange bitters

Build slowly and deliberately in a shaker with ice, allowing time to become lost in your own thoughts ad nauseum with the addition of each ingredient. 

Stir without any sense of urgency, and strain into a patiently waiting martini glass. Sit down before imbibing. Contemplate the color and smell for at least 5 minutes before sipping this overwrought and complex cocktail with hopes of recalling those hopelessly lost memories of the night before.

The Walden Pond. This civilly disobedient cocktail transcends the flavors of New England.

In a tall tumbler, over ice combine:

1 part vodka
1 part Poire Williams or Pear Schnapps
2 parts apple cider
top with seltzer and a squeeze of lemon and garnish with sugar dipped cranberries.

Don Quixote Plata

750 ML of a substance advertised as a very expensive, clear tequila served in a very fragile, thin, crystal windmill shaped bottle with no mouth or opening of any kind, so as to make it impossible to sample the contents (tap water) without breaking the vessel and spilling the liquid.

50 Shades of Gray (hardly a classic)

2 oz Grey Goose Vodka
1 tbsp dry vermouth
2 tbsp olive juice
2 olives

Add vodka over ice and shake hard to bruise.
Pour over vermouth in chilled glass with unpitted olives (for extra pain)

"One Flute Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

1 bottle Oregon sparkling wine
1 dixie cup of fresh blueberries
1/2 oz Vodka
6 mint leaves
1 sugar cube
Juice of 1/4 fresh lemon
Sprig of Oregon-grape (Mahonia aquifolium)

Nest 3 mint leaves at the bottom of a champagne flute, top with 1 sugar cube and 2 ice cubes. In a shaker, muddle blueberries, vodka, lemon juice, and remaining mint leaves (a traditional muddler is acceptable, but if possible use the handle-end of a ratchet). Add ice and shake convulsively for 10 seconds. Double-strain contents and pour over ice cubes and mint. Fill remainder of the flute with Oregon sparkling wine. Garnish with sprig of Oregon-grape (chief among Oregon's native plants).

Nurse your cocktail quietly among a circle of friends or strangers. It's shocklingly good. (One pun too many? Yeah, I thought so, too...)

The Andalusia Peacocktail, echoing the drama and the grace, the hope and the suffering of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find."

Into a highball glass pour one ounce of freshly squeezed sugar cane juice, swirl, and discard. Fill the glass with cubes made in a lever-handled, stainless steel ice cube tray and mix:

2 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz Curacao
Add one lemon twist
Float 2/3 dashes of Angostura Bitters on top
Garnish with very ripe strawberry quarters
Wear white cotton gloves while drinking

Avoid the temptation to add Bailey's Irish Cream. That would be an unforgiveable flavor misfit.

Sense and Sensibility-
In a champagne flute:
The "sense": 3/4 oz brewed double-bergamot earl grey tea
1/2 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
3/4 oz lavender-infused simple syrup (20 lavender buds, 1/4 c. sugar, 1/2 c. water, boiled 6 min)
Top with the "sensibility": Fill with Moscato to the top of the glass, and enjoy!

True Grit (it made us think of Mattie Ross, spirited and earnest, with a touch of the wild west)-
Combine equal parts Ginger Beer and Cinnamon flavored whiskey.(we used DG brand ginger beer and Fireball whiskey) Serve over ice.

The Secret Life of Bees-
Combine in a shaker:
3 oz brewed black tea
3 oz fresh squeezed lemon
1 1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 1/2 oz honey
Shake and pour over ice. Serving suggestion: Accompany with graham crackers spread with marshmallow fluff.

In Cold Blood Oranges

3oz freshly squeezed blood orange juice
Juice of 1/2 lime
1/2 oz Pama Pomegranate liqueur
1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Rangpur gin
1 Blackberry
1/2 tsp sugar
Tonic Water

Pour the first four ingredients into a shaker over cracked ice. Shake vigorously, taking care not to splash any on your white linen suit. Light a cigarette. Place the blackberry carefully in the bottom of a 12 oz highball glass. Muddle with the sugar, add ice. Think about buried treasure in Mexico. Pour the juice & gin mixture into the glass slowly. Top off with tonic water. Give it a couple of stirs. Before drinking, be sure to clean up the clutter(s).

Strange Pilgrim
Take a pinch of earl grey tea and place it in a mixing glass
spoon of sugar
Brulee gently the tea and sugar and add the following spirits:
1 oz of french vermouth (Dolin dry)
1.25 oz of Brazilian rum (Cachaca)
.75 oz of lemon juice (Fresh, please)
Add ice and shake til properly cold, strain and serve in a coupe glass with a nice lemon twist.

Like the characters in Marquez's nove the ingredients hail from all over the globe and cross paths for just a moment in this short drink.

"The Remains of the Day" Martini

2 ounces Earl Grey Tea-Infused Boodles Gin
(steep 1 TBS of loose early grey tea in 6 oz of gin. Let sit for 2-4 hours. Strain. Makes enough for two short martinis)

Shake with ice

Place a sugar cube in the bottom of the cocktail glass and pour a generous splash of limoncello onto the sugar cube. Top with the chilled tea-infused gin and serve with a lemon twist.

(thanks for the book suggestion Sis!)

"The Rocket 00000"
(Inspired by Gravity's Rainbow)

2 oz gin
½ oz lemon juice
⅓ oz Maraschino liqueur (Luxardo)
⅙ oz Crème de Violette
Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain in to a cocktail glass.
Top with 5 molecular cranberry bubbles (see below), preferably using the Poisson distribution.

Pairs well with a Banana Breakfast.

Molecular cranberry bubble recipe as follows:
Ingredients: 380 g cranberry juice, 1.5 g egg white powder (or 1 g Versawhip), 1 g Xanthan Gum

Using immersion blender, mix cranberry juice and egg white powder. Add the Xanthan gum and mix again with immersion blender until completely dissolved.
Connect a clean PVC hose to a fish tank air pump and insert the other end in the mix. Turn the pump on and let bubbles collect for a few minutes. Add to cocktail.

"The Rocket 00000"
(Inspired by Gravity's Rainbow)

2 oz gin
½ oz lemon juice
⅓ oz Maraschino liqueur (Luxardo)
⅙ oz Crème de Violette
Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain in to a cocktail glass.
Top with 5 molecular cranberry bubbles (see below), preferably using the Poisson distribution.

Pairs well with a Banana Breakfast.

Molecular cranberry bubble recipe as follows:
Ingredients: 380 g cranberry juice, 1.5 g egg white powder (or 1 g Versawhip), 1 g Xanthan Gum

Using immersion blender, mix cranberry juice and egg white powder. Add the Xanthan gum and mix again with immersion blender until completely dissolved.
Connect a clean PVC hose to a fish tank air pump and insert the other end in the mix. Turn the pump on and let bubbles collect for a few minutes. Add to cocktail.

"Fifty Shades of Grey"

2 ounces of Fifty Pounds Gin http://www.fiftypoundsgin.co.uk/
1 ounces of Creme de Violette to turn the drink a steely grey

Shake with ice and pour into a 4 ounce martini glass

Garnish with a long and twisted lemon rope

That should read "the saltiness of the brine..."

The Good Earth Martini

Place 6 to 7 ice cubes into a cocktail shaker.
Add 1 ounce Shaoxing ChouJiu (unfiltered rice wine from Shaoxing, China).
Swirl cocktail shaker, coating ice cubes; strain out ChouJiu.
Add 2.5 ounces of Erguotou BaiJiu (distilled grain spirits).
Shake well, pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a pickled baby leek, and add three drops of brine. Drink slowly at first, and then rush through the last third.

The fiery kick of the BaiJiu reminds you of the heat of youth, the sweetness of the ChouJiu reminds you of the goodness of life, the saltiness of the pickle reminds you of life's sorrows, and the earthiness of the leek reminds you of your roots.

My Antonia:
1 1/2 oz rye whiskey (representing Nebraska)
1 oz slivovitz (representing Bohemia) homemade if possible to represent the pioneering spirit
dash of bitters
splash of honey

mix together with ice and shake vigorously, pour into one of those glasses (coupe?) that are wide, like the prairie

Gone with the Wind

Crush 3 sprigs of mint in the glass jar of a precision valve portable Preval Complete Spray Gun. (SKU: PRV-267 Manufacture's suggested price $9.99, available online for $4.75)
Add 2 oz. of Kentucky bourbon
Place jar in an ice bath until chilled
Remove mint
Attach jar to the Preval Sprayer power unit
Hold at an arm's length, aim for your mouth, and spray.

Slaughterhouse-Five
1 shot vodka
1/2 shot fresh lime juice
5 slices fresh jalapeño
5 cilantro sprigs
2 pinches sea salt
6 oz tomato juice
Muddle jalapeño, cilantro, and sea salt with lime juice. Add shot of vodka and tomato juice. Cover with ice and shake hard. Strain over fresh ice in a tall glass. Garnish with cilantro sprig and/or split jalapeño.

"Tequila Mockingbird"

One part each: tequila and dark rum. A splash of Kahlua and of Malibu coconut rum. Shaken or on the rocks. Garnish with a magnolia blossom.

“True Believer”

A diabetic kamikaze & progressive prune bathes in a James Bond martini.

Rim a chilled martini glass with Splenda.
To a shaker add 3 oz. Vodka and 1 oz. Dry Vermouth.
Shake with cracked ice and strain into the glass.
Add a splash of lime juice.
Garnish with a dried plum.

The Count Of Monte Cristro

1 oz Monte Cristo 12yr Aged Rum
1 oz Goslings Black Seal Rum
1 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Demerara Syrup

Add all ingredients to shaker, fill with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into glass. Garnish with a lime twist.

Check out these three from the property mixologists of the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. :)

http://vegasseven.com/dining/2012/06/07/peace-love-unity-cocktails

The Awakening

4oz espresso or coffee
2 oz Kahlua
1 oz Rum Chata

Can be made as a hot drink, iced drink, or blended.

Persuasion (Jane Austen)
:: Muddle in cocktail shaker: 1 T honey with 2-3 basil leaves, 4-5 blackberries, 1 small very ripe red plum, and the chopped rind of half a big juicy lime.
:: Add strained juice of 1 big juicy lime and 2 ounces gin.
:: Shake vigorously for 90 seconds - don't cheat the time!
:: Strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Splash with soda water. Garnish with a couple whole blackberries and a basil sprig.
:: Be persuaded!

"On The Road"

While I do not I do not condone drinking and driving, the recipe below certainly captures the spirit of Kerouac's classic search for the pearl of wisdom.

Cheap American beer in a can and a brown paper bag.

Two from Faulkner:

"Sanctuary" a.k.a. the "Temple Drake"
--Pour 1/2oz grenadine in a collins glass. Fill with ice.
--In a separate shaker glass, mix 3 ox corn whiskey and 2 oz sours mix. Shake violently, and then strain into collins glass.
--Garnish with a cherry (and/or a pickled baby corn, if you're feeling particularly feisty)

"The Sound and the Fury" a.k.a the "Muddy Drawers"
Combine equal parts:
--Simple Syrup (Benjy)
--Water (Quentin)
--Bourbon (Jason)
--and Kahlua (Dilsey)
Garnish with a cherry (Caddy). Bonus points if the cherry is slightly spoiled.

The Lucy Maud Montgomery - sweet and Canadian!

one part canadian whiskey
two parts vodka
two parts maple syrup
dash of honey
mix together serve cold by itself or add cream or half and half

The General in His Labyrinth
2 parts gin
1 part Ouzo
1 part Jagermeister
7 frozen organic raspberries
Best accompanied with an unfiltered cigarette

One Hundred Years of Solitude: A deliciously magic, deliciously real combination of flavors

Ingredients:
~2 pods Colombian cardamom
~2 ounces gin (Nolet’s Silver would be perfection)
~1 ounce St-Germain
~1/2 ounce Meyer lemon juice
~Splash of sweet vermouth
~Splash of rose flower water
~Ice cube made from simple syrup

Procedure:
~Crack cardamom in bottom of shaker.
~Add liquid ingredients and let sit for a minute.
~Add regular ice to mixture and shake for 30 seconds to a minute.
~Place simple syrup ice cube in dainty cocktail glass.
~Strain liquids into dainty cocktail glass with simple syrup ice cube.
~Garnish with the petals of a yellow flower, like the ones that rained from the sky after the death of Coronel Aureliano Buendía, that same death (and a block of ice) with which García Márquez opens his novel.

The Secret Garden ...... I may not be a sickly child, but this leafy green drink certainly has transformative powers!

Juice of 1/2 lime
6 mint leaves
1 small Persian cucumber
2 1/2 Tbsp simple syrup
3 Tbsp Hendricks gin

Place first four ingredients in a shaker and muddle well, really getting the flavors out of the cucumber and mint.

Add gin and fill shaker with ice. Shake until very cold.

Strain into an ice-filled glass, allowing some of the cucumber and mint bits to fall in.

Top with club soda.

Sorta a variation on a "White Cuban," the Moby Dick: Six parts Whaler's brand Spiced Rum, 3 parts Kahlua, and 6 parts coconut milk served in double old fashioned glass over ice. There you have a "big white drink." For variation, you can alternatively use Whaler's Banana rum or Whaler's vanilla for taste, and if you like to pay tribute to the bloody ending, you can add a shot of grenadine for effect.

The Lolita

Drop a shot of vodka into a Shirley Temple.

Purple Haze Martini
Use heavy metal shaker, purple capsule optional

1 oz. freshly squeezed pomegranate juice*
1 1/2 oz. Hpnotiq®
1 1/2 oz. pineapple juice
orange rind and apple slice for garnish

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker over ice.
Shake well and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with orange rind and apple slice.

The Invisible Man Martini (Ellison)
1/4 oz vermouth (poured over ice and discarded
2 shots of vodka
two peppercorns for eyes just in case you need to see.

Tequila Mockingbird
2 oz. Tequila
1/2 oz. Campari
1/4 ofulime juice
Ask Boo to come from behind the door and shake it for one minute.

A crucible - a dark and portentous mix of dark coffee, amaretto and pure maple syrup with a witch's fate. While serving, place rum on the mug’s rim and light it.

The Pit and the Pendulum
This drink rocks you back & forth with caffeine and alcohol, and like Poe's story, it's dark and mysterious.

Pit and macerate fresh cherries in sugar. When the fruit has softened, put a few cherries to the bottom of a glass. Add ice, a shot of iced espresso and a shot of Irish Whiskey. (Be sure NOT to include dangerous cherry pits.)

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Goldschlager and 151, shaken, served as a shooter.

Breakfast of Champions (by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

1 oz vodka
2 dashes of vinegar
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ketchup
2 dashes of Tabasco sauce
Pinch of Montreal Steak Seasoning
Top with spicy tomato juice
1 egg

Crack the egg into a tall glass, not breaking the yolk. Add the remaining ingredients. Garnish with pickled asparagus speak and green olive

Okay, one more, an American cocktail to end the night on a pleasant note:
The Gift of the Magi -
2 parts Brandy;
1 part mead;
garnish with juniper branch & berries.
Trading coveted sugar for alcohol, this drink finds itself richer for that which it lost. A good drink for Santa, too - a guy can only have so much milk in one night.

Ooh, and another:
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) -
1 part Beefeater (Day 1, London);
Juice of 1/4 lemon (Day 7, Egypt);
1 part tonic water (Day 23, Calcutta);
1 skewered Chili (Day 36, Hong Kong);
1 part white rum (Day 60, somewhere in the Pacific);
1/2 part Moonshine/Corn Whisky (Day 70, somewhere in the Appalachians);
1/2 part Irish whiskey (Day 79, Dublin); and finally,
1 skewered Olive (Day 80, the Reform Club again)!
Stir vigorously with the chili and olive; the purist counts 80 revolutions. An invigorating, epic cocktail for the modern adventurer!

In the spirit of a recent show:

The Metamorphosis (Kafka) -
2 parts gin, one part Creme de Violette poured slowly down the side of the glass, 2 dashes of bitters; garnish with a small apple cube, not to be eaten until the glass is empty. Drink a few and you're sure to feel a transformation, and possibly the loss of communication skills and self-isolation. With motor skills intact though, you will probably not suffer quite so grim a fate as Herr Samsa.

Green Eggs and Ham (Seuss) -
3 parts absinthe poured over a sugar cube, top with a raw egg white, shake to mix and froth the egg; serve at room temperature with a cured meat garnish (or for vegetarians, a small smoked sweet onion might do quite nicely). Would you drink this in a bar? Would you drink it 'neath the stars? Try it, Try it, you will see! (Also: you might find yourself loopy enough to attempt speaking in rhyme quite quickly with this one...)

Hopefully not too elaborate. Dreaming these up has made me want to try making them!

The Old Man and the Sea

3 ounces tomato water
1.5 ounces Grey Goose vodka
1 freshly shucked oyster, its liquor reserved
1 dash Worcestershire

Coat the rim of an old-fashioned glass with a combination of sea salt, ground nori, and fresh black pepper.
Place the oyster in the bottom of the glass.
Mix vodka, tomato water, Worcestershire, and oyster liquor over ice.
Strain into the glass and enjoy. Be sure to eat the oyster...you've earned it.

The Whale (to be served in openly gay nightclubs where anonymity is preferred)

Make a standard Long Island: Fill a tall glass with ice and pick up the vodka, gin, rum and triple sec bottles simultaneously, pouring at least 1/2 shot of each into the glass. Fill with sweet and sour and a splash of Coke on top. In place of lemon, garnish with fresh bath salts and a little note that says:

Call me! "Ishmael" (206) 555 - etc.

...and then see if he doesn't stop by later and chew your leg off.

KIDDING!

The Speaker for the Dead (Orson Scott Card)
Intended to be a bit of a parallel to the character as well as the book. Honesty, as the paramount aspect of the speaker, is most important to the drink, so you can definitely taste the alcohol. The initial sourness and bitterness is followed by a lingering sweetness, tying into the effects of a speaking. Prep:

-Half presentation of a chilled martini glass with salt (use if drink is too sweet.)
-Splash of grenadine (roll around bottom of glass to coat)
-In a shaker with ice, 1 1/2oz bourbon & 1/2oz Creme de Cassis
-Strain into glass
-Top with lemon juice
-Cherry garnish

Some very clever things here. In fact a few people listed what could be a novel in and of itself of cocktails about novels about cocktails. But, Pete, might I just point out that "Whiskey with an Orange Juice Chaser" isn't exactly a cocktail.

All the King’s Gin
- 1 oz Bombay Sapphire, 1 oz Hendrick’s gin, 1 oz Tanqueray gin, shake with ice, pour over 2 cubes and add a twist of lemon.

A Farewell to Arms
- Kamikaze ;-)

Tropic of Cancer
- 2 oz white rum, 1 oz Grand Marnier, 1 tbsp. amaretto, ½ oz simple syrup, squirt of lime over ice. Dust top of drink with powdered sugar. Classic paper umbrella.

Gravity’s Rainbow
- Pour ½ oz Midori in bottom of glass and add ice. Mix 2 oz rum and 4 oz OJ and pour over ice gently to prevent mixing of midori. Add a layer of ¼ oz curacao and touch of red Chambord.

The Tequila Sun Also Rises
--Squeeze lime into High Ball glass half full with ice. Add 2 oz Tequila, 1 oz Grand Marnier and 4 oz OJ and stir with ice. Slowly add ¾ oz Grenadine to let it settle, then slowly stir in. Add maraschino cherry and a touch of cranberry juice for an extra bolt of red.

As I Lay Dying
- 4 oz each of Vodka, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Rum, tequila and Gin. Shake in mixer with ice, pour in tall glass and chug. It will kill you.

Moby-Dick, The great white drink:
-1½oz. Vanilla infused Vodka
1oz. Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
½oz. light cream.
Served with harpoon shaped drink mixer.

Good night everybody!

Like Water For Chocolate
- Home made hot chocolate with 2oz of peppermint schnapps.

Fahrenheit 451
- Pour 1 part peppermint schnapps into a shot glass, add 1 part sambuca and top with 1 part 151 rum, light on fire. Douse after 15 seconds and drink.

Hamlet
½ oz Danish Gammel Dansk, 1.5 oz brandy, 1.2 oz cranberry juice, shake with ice and a splash of soda.

12 Angry Gin
-4 oz Hendrick’s Gin 12 very small ice cubes and two drops of bitters.

A Tale of Two Cities
- 4 oz London Style Gin and 1 oz St Germain over 2 large ice cubes

The Grapes of Wrath Champagne in a Martini glass with Red Grapes on a toothpick.

Like Water For Chocolate
- Home made hot chocolate with 2oz of peppermint schnapps.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Mimosa with Ice (as in diamonds, but you knew that).

The Hunt for Red October
- Vodka and Red Bull

Tequila Mocking Bird (one of 10,000 obvious entries!)
- 2 oz tequila, 1 oz cointreau on the rocks with squirt of lime and a lime wedge.

Clockwork Orange
- 1 oz grand marnier, 1 oz cointreau, over ice topped with a twist of orange peel.

The Ginger Man
- Grey Goose vodka martini with ½ oz Domaine de Canton Ginger liqueur.

Heart of Darkness
- 4oz African Amarula cream liqueur, spring of Mint, 2 oz white rum and zest of orange and crushed ice.

A Passage to India
- Bombay Sapphire Gin and Tonic with a thin slice of mango at the bottom of the glass and a wedge of lime.

Of Mice and Gin:
-Gin and Tonic with a side of Cheddar Cheese

Absinthe, Absinthe!
-Double shot of Absinthe.

Gone with the Wind
-Pour ½ oz crème de menthe in a shot glass fill with Southern Comfort and light on fire. Shot “as God is my witness, I shall never go thirsty again!” then slam the drink.

In Cold Bloody Mary (Truman Capote)
-Bloody Mary with no ice, but stored in freezer until slushy in consistency. Add celery at the end.

Breakfast of Champions:
-Whiskey with an orange juice chaser.

No Country For Old Men
-A shot of Old Gand-Dad server on a small mirror with a “line” of powdered sugar.

Cold Southern Comfort Farm
-Muddle mint leaves in an old fashion glass, add ice and Southern Comfort.

One Hundred Beers of Solitude: Boilermaker with Negra Modelo and shot of 100 year old Tequila

Old Man and The Sea Breeze:
Classic Sea Breeze topped with ½ oz of Grand Marnier

The Call of the Wild Turkey: Old Fashioned with Wild Turkey, coke and a slice of lime.

Maltese Falcon Single Malt liquor, straight, consumed in a smoky bar while wearing a fedora and trench coat.

The Color Purple: Purple grape juice and Grain Alcohol

The Sound and the Fury Faulkner loved a good Mint Julep.

Mix classic Mint Julep, using
1.5 oz Jim Beam
1.5 oz Jack Daniels
And a splash of soda water.

Two southern aristocrats, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels furiously fight it out when mixed together with noisy soda water.

Cocktails:
Rummy-O and Gingerette: Standard old fashion mix with Rum and Ginger Ale over ice.

Lolita: 12 year old Whiskey and a maraschino cherry.

Catch-22: Mix the world’s best cocktail, but don’t let anyone drink it.

Huckleberry Ginn:Gin and Vodka martini with 3 huckleberries on a toothpick.

A Confederacy of Dunces

1 1/2 ounces aged dark rum (Ron Zacapa Centenario)
1/2 ounce Amaretto
1/2 ounce cask-proof bourbon (Booker’s, from the Jim Beam distillery works nicely)
2 ounces Horchata (Homemade)

Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice and add remaining ingredients. Stir vigorously with a barspoon until chilled. Pour into a double rocks glass and serve with a swizzle stick.

This is one of my favorite books of all time and this recipe is a nice nod to the "Dr. Nut" references in the book. I also figured using Rum as a base spirit was a nice touch, given the current rise in popularity of r(h)ums this year. Don't overlook the cask proof burbon, it really gives the amaretto the kick in the ass it deserves!

Cheers!

I don't exactly have a mix, but a perfect name for a Vonnegut-inspired drink would be...the "Filthy Flamingo" (from Slaughterhouse Five)

Kafka on the Beach

1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz sake
1/2 oz peach schnapps
1/2 oz Chambord raspberry liqueur
cranberry juice
orange juice

Serve in: Highball Glass and garnish with plastic novelty cockroach. Sip repeatedly until
all feelings of alienation dissipate.

The Alice in Wonderland

1. Coat the inside of a small, chilled teacup with absinthe
2. Mix and strain into cup:
3 oz. bourbon
1 oz. pink lemonade
3/4 oz. simple syrup
Ice
3. Gently float a few conversation hearts as garnish

"The Age of Innocence"

2oz Navy Strength Gin
1/2 oz Creme de Violette
1/2 oz Lillet Blanc
few drops of Green Chartreuse

Add Chartreuse to a cocktail saucer, swirl and dump. Combine other ingredients over ice in a cocktail strainer. Shake vigorously and strain into glass. Garnish with an edible flower.

Like the social atmosphere in New York during the period in which this novel is set, this cocktail seems delicate and refined on the outside but is pure booze under the surface.

Do you take requests? I’d like a Moby Dick, with an Ahab chaser.

"Silas Marner Gold"

2 ounces orange juice
2 ounces peach nectar
4 ounces champagne
1 ounce brandy

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty: Rum and Passion Fruit Cocktail: 1 cup sugar, 8 oz fresh passion fruit/ juice of 2 limes/ 6 oz Rum.

The Perfect Drink for a woman in love with New York.

Here's how to make a Lady in the Lake, as cool and bracing as Raymond Chandler's crime classic.

2 ounces gin
1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
1/4 ounce St. Germaine liqueur
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Cherry garnish. Drink one or two, until you can stand yourself a little and the others at the bar start to seem not at all monstrous.

Forgive me if I bend the rules a bit and share my novelist cocktail -- this is an actual recipe that I made (and tasted) up with a group of friends long long ago.

The "Kafka": coffee and vodka. It's all about suffering.

To Kill a Mockingbird Cocktail
2/3rds Milk
1/3 Kahula
Don't let them mix.