Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. The one thing that could
Speaker 1: be weirder than an original Salvador Dolli painting being stolen
Speaker 1: from the walls of the New York City Department of
Speaker 1: Corrections is the fact that an original Salvador Dali painting
Speaker 1: hung for nearly forty years in the Rikers Island Jail
Speaker 1: complex in the first place. Welcome to Criminalia. I'm ranch
Speaker 1: Market and I'm Holly Fry. So first, let's get to
Speaker 1: know a little about the man behind this stolen work.
Speaker 1: He was worn Salvador Domingo Felippe Jacinto Dalis dominic on
Speaker 1: Man four in the Catalonian town of Figueris in northeastern Spain,
Speaker 1: to Salvador Dali Kusi and Felipa Dominic Feris. He had
Speaker 1: an older brother who passed away in infancy, and a sister,
Speaker 1: on A Maria, who was born when Dali was aged four.
Speaker 1: According to Dolli biographer Ian Gibson, his mother was so
Speaker 1: proud of her son's childhood drawings and reportedly would boast
Speaker 1: quote when he says he'll draw a swan, he draws
Speaker 1: a swan, and when he says he'll do a duck,
Speaker 1: it's a duck. Dali was in his teens when his
Speaker 1: mother died of cancer. In his autobiography, he wrote of her, quote,
Speaker 1: this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life.
Speaker 1: I worshiped her. I saw to myself that I would
Speaker 1: snatch my mother from death and destiny with swords of light,
Speaker 1: that someday would savagely gleam around my glorious name. Several
Speaker 1: years after her death, he sketched an outline of Christ
Speaker 1: and scrawl the cross at the words about spitting on
Speaker 1: his mother's portrait, and some reports suggest that even though
Speaker 1: he didn't mean this to slander his mother, his father
Speaker 1: offended threw him out. He is described as having been
Speaker 1: an imaginative and dreamy child who was also self centered
Speaker 1: and spoiled. In his ninety two autobiography The Secret Life
Speaker 1: of savon Or Dali, he wrote, quote, at the age
Speaker 1: of six, I wanted to be a cook. At seven,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be Napoleon, and my ambition has been
Speaker 1: growing steadily ever since. He spoke about being proud of
Speaker 1: his delicate sensitivity, and he prided himself on being different
Speaker 1: from his peers. There's actually an anecdote about Dolly that
Speaker 1: when his fellow school children learned that grasshoppers frightened him,
Speaker 1: they would throw them at him, and in his telling
Speaker 1: of the story, it was just so that they could
Speaker 1: delight in his terror. Dalia received his formal education in
Speaker 1: fine arts in Madrid, and his artistic creations spanned multiple mediums,
Speaker 1: including not only painting and illustration, but photography and film.
Speaker 1: He was an artist and author, a critic, and he
Speaker 1: was most definitely a provocateur. Dolly was very young, just fourteen,
Speaker 1: when he first exhibited work as part of a show
Speaker 1: in Figari's. Three years later, he was admitted to the
Speaker 1: Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando in Madrid,
Speaker 1: and once there he reportedly believed his teachers were He
Speaker 1: believed he were just out of touch, and in one anecdote,
Speaker 1: he said while at school that he could learn more
Speaker 1: from French magazines than his classes, and he wasn't quiet
Speaker 1: about it. When it was time for his year end
Speaker 1: exam in art history at the Academy, Dolly said of
Speaker 1: his examiners, quote, I am very sorry, but I am
Speaker 1: infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore
Speaker 1: refused to be examined by them. I know this subject
Speaker 1: much too well. Academy officials expelled him without a diploma.
Speaker 1: Smithsonian magazine would say it best decades later when they
Speaker 1: printed quote, after all, Dolly without the antics is not Dolly.
Speaker 1: It's when he moved to Paris in n and he
Speaker 1: was twenty two at that time that he began painting
Speaker 1: his first Surrealist pieces. The artistic and intellectual movement of
Speaker 1: Surrealism was begun by writer Andre Breton just two years
Speaker 1: earlier in four and it gained popularity primarily between the
Speaker 1: First and Second World Wars. Inspired by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories,
Speaker 1: it championed artistic expression through the exploration of the unconscious mind.
Speaker 1: Dali was also known for his methods of free association
Speaker 1: to approach his art. He's credited with expanding on the
Speaker 1: movement's dreamy imagery with his own erotically charged hallucinations. Dolly
Speaker 1: quickly became part of the center of the surrealist movement,
Speaker 1: along with other artists including Renema Greet and Johan Mereaux.
Speaker 1: Breta wrote that Dali's name was quote synonymous with revelation
Speaker 1: in the most resplendent sense of the word. It's his
Speaker 1: painting The Persistence of Memory, that's the one that features
Speaker 1: the melting clocks. That might be his most iconic and
Speaker 1: his most recognized work. He painted that in nineteen thirty one,
Speaker 1: and many years later Dolly famously recounted its origins, explaining
Speaker 1: that the quote soft watches were the remains of a
Speaker 1: very strong Camembert cheese. He hit the art scene when
Speaker 1: he moved to Paris, and he remained in the public
Speaker 1: eye for many decades, right up until his death at
Speaker 1: a j D. Four in nineteen thirty six. At thirty two,
Speaker 1: DOLLI was on the cover of Time magazine quote, compared
Speaker 1: to Velasquez, I am nothing, but compared to contemporary painters,
Speaker 1: I am the most big genius of modern time. Salvador
Speaker 1: Dolly said this of himself. He wasn't wrong about his largesse.
Speaker 1: His paintings would later command more than twenty one million
Speaker 1: dollars at auction. So now that we know about Dolly,
Speaker 1: we're going to take a break for a word from
Speaker 1: our sponsor. When we return, we should probably talk about
Speaker 1: how an original work of his ended up in the
Speaker 1: mess hall at an American prison. Welcome back to Criminalia.
Speaker 1: Let's talk first about Rikers, the correctional compound where this
Speaker 1: whole thing took place. So we know the artist, so
Speaker 1: we'll explore the scene of the heist. Rikers Island, known
Speaker 1: as Rikers. The Rikers Island Complex is the main correctional
Speaker 1: compound of New York City, and it's located on which
Speaker 1: you could probably guess, Rikers Island, and that sits in
Speaker 1: the East River between the boroughs of Queens and the Bronx.
Speaker 1: It's one of the country's most notorious correctional facilities, with
Speaker 1: a reputation for both violence and neglect. During its history,
Speaker 1: it has held between four thousand and two detainees and prisoners,
Speaker 1: some famous, some not. In more recent decades, the island
Speaker 1: saw rapper Tupac Shakur. John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman
Speaker 1: was sentenced there, as was former New York Giants wide
Speaker 1: receiver and Super Bowl champion Plexico Buris. The island is
Speaker 1: named after Abraham Reichn, a Dutch colonist who purchased it
Speaker 1: in sixteen sixty four. The City of New York bought
Speaker 1: the Island from that family in eighteen eighty four, and
Speaker 1: it has housed correctional and mental health institutions pretty much
Speaker 1: ever since. The complex has ten different facilities. The Otis
Speaker 1: Bantam Correctional Center, the Anna M. Cross Center, the George
Speaker 1: Matchen Detention Center, and the George R. Virno Center hold
Speaker 1: detained adult males. Robert and Devoran Complex houses males between
Speaker 1: sixteen and eighteen years of age. The Eric M. Taylor
Speaker 1: Center holds sentenced male adolescence and adults. The Rose M.
Speaker 1: Singer Center houses sentenced adolescent and adult female detainees, and
Speaker 1: the Vernon See Bains Center is a floating eight hundred
Speaker 1: bed jail capable of holding medium to maximum security inmates.
Speaker 1: The island maintains a barge dock to accommodate it. The
Speaker 1: North Infirmary Command houses prisoners in need of medical attention,
Speaker 1: and the West Facility houses inmates with contagious diseases. These
Speaker 1: things are changing, though. In October, the city passed into
Speaker 1: law a plan to shutter all prison facilities on Rikers
Speaker 1: Island by the year. Instead of the jails of Rikers,
Speaker 1: there will be a network of four modern jail sites
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, and according to
Speaker 1: city and Corrections officials, this smaller Borow based jail system
Speaker 1: will house a population of no more than three thousand,
Speaker 1: three hundred people, so it is much smaller and the
Speaker 1: jails will be located within communities and not sequestered on
Speaker 1: an island. This is the very short telling of the
Speaker 1: story of Rikers, but it's not really the jail that
Speaker 1: we're interested in, to be honest, this could have been
Speaker 1: any incarceration facility like Alcatraz or Sing Sing for that matter.
Speaker 1: What we're really talking about is the heist. In February
Speaker 1: of Salvador Dolli was invited to visit a Rikers Island
Speaker 1: inmate art program by long time Department of Correction commissioner
Speaker 1: and Across Cross had met Dolly's business associate, Nico Eperi
Speaker 1: Fanos at a dinner party where the two laid the
Speaker 1: groundwork for Dollie's Island visit. Anna believed in rehabilitating prisoners
Speaker 1: through the arts, including painting, as well as through theater productions.
Speaker 1: The famous painter's visit would be conducted under the marketing
Speaker 1: banner of Salvador Dolly Goes to Prison. Dolly it said,
Speaker 1: was known to twitch his waxed, upturned mustache and endorsed
Speaker 1: pretty much any product you put in front of him,
Speaker 1: and usually for French and American television commercials. So here's
Speaker 1: one example for an am Erican television commercial in seven,
Speaker 1: he sat in an airplane seat alongside Whitey Ford, who
Speaker 1: was the star pitcher for the New York Yankees at
Speaker 1: the time, and he proclaimed in heavily accented English. The
Speaker 1: advertising campaign slogan of now defunct brand of airlines said,
Speaker 1: Dolly quote, if you got it, flaunt it, said Ford
Speaker 1: in reply. That's telling him, Dolly baby. So when Nico
Speaker 1: mentioned the event and its potential press coverage to Dolly, naturally,
Speaker 1: Dolly was down for Rikers. On February, Dolly woke up
Speaker 1: with a fever of one degrees fahrenheit thirty eight degrees celsius.
Speaker 1: He was scheduled to visit Riker's Island that day to
Speaker 1: meet with inmates and his wife Gala, his pet Acelot Babu,
Speaker 1: and a whole lot of press was going to be
Speaker 1: there along with him. Dolly never missed a good pr opportunity,
Speaker 1: except he did miss this one. He was just too
Speaker 1: sick and it was too cold out and he couldn't
Speaker 1: make the scheduled ferry ride to the island, and that
Speaker 1: was the only way to access the facility at the time.
Speaker 1: But to make up for this cancelation, he decided to
Speaker 1: send the prisoners accustomed Dolly as a means of an apology.
Speaker 1: It's said that in about an hour or two, Dolly
Speaker 1: whipped up a surrealist crucifixion scene with pencil and India
Speaker 1: inc on a five by three ft piece of paper
Speaker 1: so quite large. The painting depicts Christ on the cross
Speaker 1: from the Christian Crucifixion story. Dolly signed and dated it
Speaker 1: in the lower corner and included a note saying quote
Speaker 1: for the inmates dining room on Riker's Island Belly. Nico
Speaker 1: e very Fanos hand delivered the artwork to the prison,
Speaker 1: sending word from Dully to the inmates that quote, you
Speaker 1: are artists. Don't think your life is finished for you
Speaker 1: with art, you have to always feel free. News photos
Speaker 1: from that day show Nico presenting Anna with the untitled work.
Speaker 1: It hung in the mess hall of what was then
Speaker 1: known as the Correctional Institution for Men for sixteen years
Speaker 1: until an inmate threw a coffee cup at it, but
Speaker 1: the danger it phase actually wasn't from the inmates or
Speaker 1: from caffe aated beverages. Really, it was from prison guards.
Speaker 1: After the coffee mug incident of the untitled Dolly was
Speaker 1: removed from the wall of the cafeteria. When a warden
Speaker 1: named Alexander Jenkins arrived at Riker's that same year, he
Speaker 1: was actually skeptical about whether the Dolly was truly a Dolly,
Speaker 1: and he stated that to one media outlet, saying, quote,
Speaker 1: there weren't any records on the painting, and for all
Speaker 1: I know, it could have been an inmates copy of
Speaker 1: a Dolly. It was sent to a dealer for authentication
Speaker 1: and appraisal, and depending on what report you read, it
Speaker 1: was valued at around a hundred thousand dollars, give or
Speaker 1: take a few thousand either way. After its authentication, it
Speaker 1: was then shipped to a Virginia gallery for temporary display
Speaker 1: in a prison art exhibit, and then it was returned
Speaker 1: to Rikers and the Dolly was placed into storage and
Speaker 1: kind of forgotten about by that point. As Robert Tanner
Speaker 1: wrote in the Los Angeles Times, it wasn't forgotten just
Speaker 1: at Riker's it was quote a forgotten footnote in the
Speaker 1: art world. It sustained some water damage during that time
Speaker 1: in storage, and it doesn't seem to resurface again until
Speaker 1: sometime in the nineteen nineties, when reportedly the drawing was
Speaker 1: found in the trash and saved by a corrections officer.
Speaker 1: It had eventually found its way to the wall of
Speaker 1: a warden's office and then eventually to the lobby of
Speaker 1: the Eric M. Taylor Center that was the facility that
Speaker 1: held sentenced mail adolescents and adults. As Holly said earlier,
Speaker 1: most employees of the Department of Corrections and its visitors
Speaker 1: may not have even noticed it on the wall of
Speaker 1: the lobby or the framed note from a warden explaining
Speaker 1: that the image was a genuine ali that was worth
Speaker 1: a lot of money. It hung in its original gold
Speaker 1: frame in a glass case next to a soda ending
Speaker 1: machine until Mark first, two thousand and three. On March first,
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, the untitled Dolly went missing and
Speaker 1: it hasn't been seen since. So we're going to take
Speaker 1: a break here for a word from our sponsor, and
Speaker 1: when we're back we will tell the story of the
Speaker 1: night A Dolly was stolen from prison. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: criminal Eat. Let's talk about the night of the heist
Speaker 1: and the four men who tried to pull it off.
Speaker 1: Four men stole the dolly from inside the Riker's complex,
Speaker 1: but the suspects were not who you might initially think. This,
Speaker 1: it turns out, is the story of how to prison
Speaker 1: wardens and two corrections officers conspired and carried out the
Speaker 1: theft of the Rikers Island Dolly. Just after one am
Speaker 1: on March one, two tho three and unplanned fire drill
Speaker 1: was staged by four prison officials inside the Eric M.
Speaker 1: Taylor Center. All two thousand incarcerated people housed there at
Speaker 1: the time were put on lockdown. Guards on duty rushed
Speaker 1: from their posts and convened in a remote wing. This
Speaker 1: was all what they had been trained to do, and
Speaker 1: this left the lobby where the dolly hung completely empty.
Speaker 1: The theft was as basic as this. One person manned
Speaker 1: the fire alarm, two people worked as lookouts, and a
Speaker 1: fourth person was responsible for switching the real dolly with
Speaker 1: a forgery. But this was not exactly a well planned
Speaker 1: out caper. It was not carried out with a great
Speaker 1: deal of efficiency or grace. It was just a few
Speaker 1: hours later, after the guard shifts had changed and the
Speaker 1: heightened drama of having that unplanned drill had all quieted down,
Speaker 1: when another corrections officer stated that there was something odd
Speaker 1: about the dolly. It was because it happened that this
Speaker 1: particular guard had this habit of quietly praying to the
Speaker 1: drawing every time he started his shift. But that day
Speaker 1: when he arrived, he noticed right away that something was
Speaker 1: very different, and he reported to the warden that the
Speaker 1: drawing appeared to be a fake. It was a fake,
Speaker 1: and it was so obviously a fake. In fact, some
Speaker 1: of the scene that morning compared what was left behind
Speaker 1: the drawing of a young child. It was a noticeably
Speaker 1: smaller and sloppy copy of what had been hanging in
Speaker 1: that spot for years. There was something else, too, The
Speaker 1: art no longer had that special quirkiness of having been
Speaker 1: at Rikers for so long. The painting had hung in
Speaker 1: a cafeteria originally for sixteen years, and it had developed
Speaker 1: some reddish food stains ketchup, it's assumed, as it hung
Speaker 1: near the trash bins where inmates dumped their leftovers. The
Speaker 1: splotches on the counter fit though they were brown, but
Speaker 1: actually before you even noticed the counterfeit details of the
Speaker 1: replacement itself. The most obvious difference may have been that
Speaker 1: the gold leaf mahogany frame that had held the original
Speaker 1: piece was also missing. Instead, there was no frame at all,
Speaker 1: and the thieves had hung the forgery with staples to
Speaker 1: the back of the inside of the glass case. Thomas Attendant,
Speaker 1: a spokesperson for the New York Department of Corrections, told
Speaker 1: The New York Times at the time, quote, it looks
Speaker 1: like the painting has been replaced by a copy that
Speaker 1: appears to be the case, based on a consensus of
Speaker 1: non expert opinion people who work near the painting and
Speaker 1: see it day in and day out. Investigators quickly concluded
Speaker 1: that the only people who had access to the artwork
Speaker 1: were not the inmates, but the guards. Inmates did not
Speaker 1: have access to that lobby. Investigations were marred by the
Speaker 1: surveillance footage, though just so happened that a camera that
Speaker 1: pointed directly at the Dolly was linked to a recording
Speaker 1: device in the warden's office, but it had mysteriously stopped
Speaker 1: working overnight. No way. Other reports suggest the footage was lost,
Speaker 1: but despite the faulty security footage. Four suspects were uncovered
Speaker 1: within days, and those included Benny Nutzo and Mitchell Hawkhouser,
Speaker 1: both assistant deputy wardens and Greg's so called and Timothy Pena,
Speaker 1: both corrections officers. It was only a few days after
Speaker 1: the heist on March fourth, that Timothy Peena, racked with guilt,
Speaker 1: was the first to turn himself in, and it's Pena
Speaker 1: who implicated the other three men. According to court documents,
Speaker 1: he confessed to then Department of Corrections Inspector General Mike
Speaker 1: Caruso that Neutzo and Hawkhauser came up with the idea
Speaker 1: inside the Riker's commissary known as the Bodega. The men
Speaker 1: believed they could sell the painting for a good sum
Speaker 1: on the black market and planned to split the proceeds.
Speaker 1: Pena stated that they had first approached him in November
Speaker 1: of two thousand two about helping to steal the Dolly
Speaker 1: looking into Our Crystal Ball. This totally jibs with Hawkhouser's
Speaker 1: court testimony when he explained to Don Levin, the prosecutor,
Speaker 1: how the heightst developed from a joke between him and
Speaker 1: Nutso in late two thousand two into a serious plan.
Speaker 1: Just a few months later, Peina agreed to wear a
Speaker 1: wire for Caruso and agreed to meet with and record
Speaker 1: his co conspirators. The first meeting was with Sokol, who
Speaker 1: met with Peana at a local coffee shop. So Cool,
Speaker 1: unaware his conversation with Pina had been recorded, was taken
Speaker 1: into custody as he left the shop. Caruso then also
Speaker 1: convinced Socol to agree to wear a wire and record
Speaker 1: conversations with hawk Houser and Nutso at work at Rikers
Speaker 1: on March five, and he did. By June, all four
Speaker 1: men were arrested. Also that June, Pina, Sokol, Hawkhauser, and
Speaker 1: Nutso were each charged with second degree and larceny. If convicted,
Speaker 1: anyone facing that charge could be sentenced to up to
Speaker 1: fifteen years in prison. Pena, Sokol, and hawk Houser pleaded
Speaker 1: guilty to the charge, while Nutso denied everything. Hawk Houser's lawyer,
Speaker 1: Martin b. Edelman said of the whole affair quote, it
Speaker 1: was incredibly stupid. It's interesting because their sentences differed. Pena
Speaker 1: was sentenced to five years probation. Sokol was sentenced to
Speaker 1: three years probation and find one thousand dollars. Hawk Houser
Speaker 1: was given one to three years in prison, but Benny Nutzo,
Speaker 1: who was often considered the alleged ring leader of this heist,
Speaker 1: was acquitted in his jury trial. Yes, acquitted, and some
Speaker 1: people think this may be because Nutso had a high profile,
Speaker 1: high powered attorney, Joe Tacopina, representing him, and if you
Speaker 1: don't recognize his name, you'll recognize names of some of
Speaker 1: his clients, who have included Jay z and Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Tacopina has since described his method in the courtroom, and
Speaker 1: it focused on using Socle's wire taps against the prosecution.
Speaker 1: He presented the recordings to the jury, pointing out that
Speaker 1: you can't clearly hear what was being said during the
Speaker 1: parts of the admission of theft. He said, quote on
Speaker 1: the vital parts, the part where Benny's allegedly making an admission.
Speaker 1: I did this. I took the painting. I knew what
Speaker 1: the plan was. Don't worry about it. I destroyed it.
Speaker 1: On those vital parts, the word do and don't were interchangeable.
Speaker 1: I do know where it is and I don't know
Speaker 1: where it is. We're not distinguishable in other clips he
Speaker 1: used from under cover recordings. Takapina pointed out, Neotso is
Speaker 1: heard saying of the work, I never had it. Takapina
Speaker 1: also read back the official transcript of the recordings to Soco,
Speaker 1: intentionally replacing dues with domes and vice versa throughout the text,
Speaker 1: effectively changing the meanings of sentences completely. Socle stated he
Speaker 1: too could not tell when Tacopina had swapped out words,
Speaker 1: making the point that the wire taps may not have
Speaker 1: been accurately transcribed. Said Tacopina, that was the watershed moment
Speaker 1: of that trial, the death knell to the prosecution's case
Speaker 1: of the trial. He continued, quote, this ranks in the
Speaker 1: top five of the most challenging cases I've ever tried.
Speaker 1: From an evidentiary standpoint, for sure, this definitely ranks is
Speaker 1: my favorite case I've ever tried because it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a criminal trial. It was a criminal trial with the
Speaker 1: focal point being Salvador Dolly. Nutso was offered a deal
Speaker 1: plead guilty in exchange for just four years behind bars,
Speaker 1: but Nutso, maintaining his innocence, refused. Tacopina maintained his client
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the heist, and ultimately Nutso
Speaker 1: was found not guilty and was acquitted of the charge.
Speaker 1: Nutso wasn't totally free to go, though. When investigators searched
Speaker 1: Nutzo's home, they found items that were stolen from Rikers,
Speaker 1: although the Dolly drawing was not among them. In a
Speaker 1: subsequent and unrelated charge, Nutzo was found guilty of stealing
Speaker 1: more than one thousand dollars worth of items from Rikers,
Speaker 1: and he was fired from his job. And of the
Speaker 1: missing untitled Dolly, it continues to be lost. We have
Speaker 1: high hopes, just as everyone else, but we do also
Speaker 1: know that, according to those court records, Hawkhauser stated, Newtso
Speaker 1: destroyed the piece in a panic shortly after stealing it.
Speaker 1: Of the entire situation, those new dollies seemed to overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: agree on one thing and laugh about it, and that
Speaker 1: is that this would be a big joke to him
Speaker 1: and that he would have loved it. So there's this
Speaker 1: quote that I came across during research, and it's from
Speaker 1: the St. Regis magazine Beyond, and it says of the
Speaker 1: artist who lived at the St. Regis Hotel for quite
Speaker 1: some time. Quote he would announce his entrance on the
Speaker 1: premises with a loud shout of Dolly is here, and
Speaker 1: he would rule the place from that moment until his departure.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't help but think, in that one moment,
Speaker 1: that would have been the version of the story about
Speaker 1: the Dolly at Rikers that I would really like to hear.
Speaker 1: So let's go to our mess hall and pour out
Speaker 1: some high spooch. I'm just picturing a bunch of incarcerated
Speaker 1: men looking at him. It's a story I want to know,
Speaker 1: col cool dude. I wanted with this cocktail to make
Speaker 1: reference to Dully's Spanish origin, and so there's a liqueur
Speaker 1: in here that I really really love. That's a very
Speaker 1: unique Spanish liqueur. It's called Liquor l I c O R.
Speaker 1: Forty three, and if you've never had it and you
Speaker 1: have access to it, I highly recommend trying it because
Speaker 1: it is very interesting. It's like some other liqueurs we've
Speaker 1: talked about, where it's made with forty three different ingredients.
Speaker 1: That's where the number comes from. But the flavor of
Speaker 1: it I have heard describe different ways. Some people really
Speaker 1: taste the vanilla note in it, which is it's prominent
Speaker 1: and it's there, but it tastes like something more than vanilla.
Speaker 1: It also has this sort of citrusy situation going on,
Speaker 1: and there's like a whole other spiciness to it. It's
Speaker 1: just a really unique thing. So I wanted to take
Speaker 1: advantage of doing a Dolly centered episode to bring out
Speaker 1: the liquor forty three because I love it. If you
Speaker 1: are in a pinch, if for some reason you cannot
Speaker 1: get ahold of that, you could look for another vanilla
Speaker 1: liqure and maybe add a little citrus to it. But boy,
Speaker 1: if you can get it, highly recommend. So this is
Speaker 1: a very easy little cocktail called Dolly's Antics. You are
Speaker 1: gonna put a I would suggest like a small coop.
Speaker 1: It's not a big drink, So you want a smallish glass,
Speaker 1: whatever glass you love. Put it in your your fridge
Speaker 1: to chill, or your freezer to chill. I even put
Speaker 1: a few pieces of ice in mine and put it
Speaker 1: in the beverage cooler to chill. Why while I made
Speaker 1: the drink, so it is an ounce and a half
Speaker 1: of vodka. You want a very neutral, very clean vodka.
Speaker 1: Here three quarters of an ounce of the Liqueur Liqueur
Speaker 1: forty three and then three quarters of an ounce of
Speaker 1: heavy cream. You can use half and half here. You
Speaker 1: can use a nut based cream, you can use an
Speaker 1: oat based cream, whatever you like best. You want to
Speaker 1: get this very frothy, so you're gonna if you have
Speaker 1: a frother, go ahead and use it a little, but
Speaker 1: you'll also give it a shake with some ice, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna strain it into your pre chilled glass
Speaker 1: with a few pieces of ice in it. It's a
Speaker 1: very beautiful pale color. And then it's time to get
Speaker 1: out the Angerstra bitters. So you're gonna just put three
Speaker 1: drops of bitters on top. They are not going to
Speaker 1: stay intact. They're going to spread across that milky surface
Speaker 1: and kind of make almost a marbled effect. And then
Speaker 1: one more thing, you're going to sprinkle just a little
Speaker 1: bit of black salt on top. I have some that's
Speaker 1: lava salt, and I love it and I love to
Speaker 1: put it in things, and it really brings out the
Speaker 1: flavor of that liqueur forty three, and you get all
Speaker 1: of those interesting notes and the Angersta does some interesting
Speaker 1: things with it. It's kind of a dessert drink, but
Speaker 1: it has a little bit more edge than like if
Speaker 1: you were to get like one of those birthday cake
Speaker 1: martiniz or whatever. It's definitely not sweet like that. It's
Speaker 1: a little heavier hitting. That is why I include ice
Speaker 1: in the glass, because you wanted to dilute a little
Speaker 1: bit as you're drinking, because it smooths it out more
Speaker 1: and more as you go, which is really nice. This
Speaker 1: is a good one for holiday time. I think if
Speaker 1: you don't want to do the standard holiday flavors of
Speaker 1: nutmeg and gingerbread, this is like, it's interesting, but it's
Speaker 1: and it feels a little cozy. But what is it?
Speaker 1: Which seems correct for a Dolly center, but what is
Speaker 1: I really like this? And I'm gonna be making a
Speaker 1: lot to do the mock tail version. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do some trickery here. So I would get I'm
Speaker 1: gonna once again lean into tea, but we're going to
Speaker 1: make it in a different way. So I would get
Speaker 1: a vanilla et. Sometimes you can get like a vanilla
Speaker 1: black tea. Sometimes you can get just a vanilla herbal
Speaker 1: tea that doesn't have that black tea caffeination to it.
Speaker 1: And I would do at the same time, a light
Speaker 1: tasting citrus tea. Like an orange tea and you're gonna
Speaker 1: put those two tea bags. Or if you do loose leaf,
Speaker 1: you're two loose leaf amounts into a sauce pam with.
Speaker 1: I would not do all cream here. I would do
Speaker 1: something that's a little lighter, like you know, if you
Speaker 1: do like an oat milk or whatever. I would do
Speaker 1: half of like a regular oat milk and half of
Speaker 1: the cream version, so that it still stays creamy and rich,
Speaker 1: but it's not like heavy, because it will condense down
Speaker 1: as it's simmering, and you'll lose some of the liquid
Speaker 1: and it gets thicker and more intense. So I would
Speaker 1: do that. You're gonna let that just come to a
Speaker 1: simmer and then you're gonna turn off the heat and
Speaker 1: let it steep for five to ten minutes. I would
Speaker 1: take the citrus out first, let the vanilla stay a
Speaker 1: little longer in there, and then you'll let that cool
Speaker 1: and you'll shake it pour it into your pre chilled glass.
Speaker 1: If you absolutely don't do bitters because of their alcoholic content,
Speaker 1: you can leave them out, or if you want to
Speaker 1: get real fancy and experimental, you can with a little dropper,
Speaker 1: drop a little, just a little vanilla extract on top,
Speaker 1: because you know how that is a thing that tastes sweet,
Speaker 1: but in concentrated form it has a little bit of
Speaker 1: a bitterness. So you can do that, put that black
Speaker 1: salt on top, and you still have a very interesting
Speaker 1: drink that will make you go, what exactly is this?
Speaker 1: I'm a such a huge savadord Alie fan that it
Speaker 1: was like my delight to think about what would be
Speaker 1: a good drink to represent him, and hopefully this does
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