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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 21 June 2019
5 innovative takes on the martini

LONDON (AP) — The mar- on top. "The whole idea
tini's heyday began almost behind the drink is we try
a century ago, but today's to use all ingredients which
bartenders have some in- you might have for your
novative takes on the clas- breakfast, like cereals, or-
sic cocktail. ange, milk, chocolate —
"People have become so it is sort of a funky style
much more educated in and it is very enjoyable and
what they're drinking" and easy to drink," he says.
don't just go for the "obvi- ARTESIAN AT THE LANGHAM
ous choices," says Anna Sebastian showed The As-
Sebastian, bar manager sociated Press her twist on
at the Artesian bar at the the classic martini. She calls
Langham, in London. is the Fig Reviver, and it's
First, the question every got a woody flavor from
martini drinker wants to whiskey. Garnish is a mini
know: Shaken or stirred? fig leaf and a spray of fig
According to Joe McCan- water
ta of Grey Goose Vodka, LIBRARY BAR AT THE NED
if you're going to drink In the Library Bar at the pri-
your martini fast like James vate member's club The
Bond, then have it shaken. Ned, bar manager Antho-
"When you shake a martini, A picture of a Star of Bombay Martini, left, at the Library Bar at the Ned hotel in London, Wednes- ny Callegari wheels out a
all the ice is moving around day, June 19, 2019. trolley to add drama when
and that flakes off into little Associated Press serving his Star of Bombay
ice kind of flakes, and that martini.
makes the drink super-cold faster. So if you want to sa- five London bars to see Holborn, director of bars "It brings a completely dif-
immediately afterward," he vor your drink, he says, "a what's new in martinis: Martin Siska prepares their ferent experience to the
say. stirred martini cocktail will SCARFES BAR AT ROSE- Petit DJ Ne Martini, a fun bar. It is more of a bespoke
But as the drink sits, all those stay much colder, much WOOD take on the-morning-after- service, so we come to the
little bits of ice dilute faster longer." At the elegant Scarfes bar the-night-before, complete table and literally tailor the
and your drink gets warm We took a recent tour of at Rosewood, a hotel in with a toasted brioche bun martini to you," he says. q

Paul Simon, Alice Quinn honored by Poetry Society of America

By HILLEL ITALIE Frost and Emily Dickinson
NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Si- from Simon's "A Dangling
mon doesn't care much for Conversation."
requests, but he might ask Simon, meanwhile, was
you to sing along. alternately playful and
The singer-songwriter's lat- contrarian. He chastised
est honor came from the Collins for misremember-
Poetry Society of America, ing a discussion they had
which celebrated him Tues- about writing and won-
day during a dinner benefit dered about the meaning
at the New York Botanical of awards when the planet
Garden. was "disintegrating." He
Simon and longtime poetry joked about making room
editor Alice Quinn were for his poetry society award
the guests of honor, their among his "shelves and
careers both lasting for de- shelves" of prizes, right next
cades and making them to a special trophy for be-
revered names among lov- ing the "best-dressed dad."
ers of words. His acceptance came in
Quinn has championed three parts: He read work
Sharon Olds, Edward Hirsch by two poets who died this
and countless other poets year, Les Murray and W.S.
as an adjunct professor at Merwin; chatted briefly on
Columbia University, the stage with Collins about
poetry editor at The New This Sept. 22, 2018 file photo shows singer-songwriter Paul Simon performing in Flushing Meadows writing; and, to everyone's
Yorker (from 1987 to 2007) Corona Park during the final stop of his Homeward Bound - The Farewell Tour in New York. obvious pleasure, per-
and an editor at Alfred A. Associated Press formed a few songs.
Knopf. She is stepping down Be careful, though, about
as executive editor of the who praised her contribu- membered seeing him in who noted that Simon was requests. Simon explained
poetry society, where she tions to "the inner life across the offices of Knopf, which among the first rock song- that during one show he
has served since 2001. She this country and beyond." published a book of his writers to use the word saw a woman come close
was introduced by Pulitzer Quinn noted that Simon lyrics. Simon was then in- "poetry" in a song ("I Am a to the stage, sobbing, beg-
Prize winner and U.S. poet had been a supporter of troduced by former U.S. Rock") and to name poets, ging him to perform a cer-
laureate Tracy K. Smith, the poetry society and re- poet laureate Billy Collins, reading lines about Robert tain song. q