Shaken, not stirred… How do you prefer your martini?
Beginning last year, however, Noilly Prat started phasing out the American blend and replacing it, “New Coke” style, with the original European formula. And here you thought your martini, at the very least, was safe from globalization’s steady creep. “The flavor has become more earthy than it used to be,” said Ben Ward, the head bartender at Libation, a Lower East Side restaurant and nightclub. – from NYTimes