Ironically, James Bond proceeded to drink many more cocktails in eleven more books but never another Vesper Martini. But that one book was enough to create a cocktail for the ages. More than a ...

“Everybody understands certain things about James Bond,” he says. “Bond knows the correct way to serve a martini, to win at poker, and how to ask a lady to dance at an embassy ball.

He ordered a prefatory medium-dry Martini of American vermouth and Beefeater ... “Oh, men like the boss of James Bond, the operative who’s the chief character in all my books,” said our ...