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Speaker 1: Ruthie's Table for presented by Sky.

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Speaker 2: I was a bartender in a lot of places. I've

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Speaker 2: had a lot of service jobs in my life.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that working in a bar talked to

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Speaker 1: you about about people, about life did? Do you think

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Speaker 1: that was an experience that you took with you?

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Speaker 2: It was an essential experience really shaped me. I learned

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Speaker 2: more there than you know having a job like in

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Speaker 2: an ad agency in many ways in terms of you know,

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Speaker 2: and learning about different types of people. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: I was a bartender in Aspen and Saint Thomas, I

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Speaker 2: was in Martha's Vineyard in New York City. I was

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Speaker 2: like a king. I went through my King in the

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Speaker 2: Road phase and did a lot of that. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: you meet a lot of different type of people and

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Speaker 2: you and you get good at it, you develop your

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Speaker 2: emotional abilities.

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Speaker 1: A friend who at Apple, and he introduced me to

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Speaker 1: the woman who recruits for or introdews people who want

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Speaker 1: jobs at Apple, and she said that if she looks

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Speaker 1: on someone's CV and they've had years of working or

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Speaker 1: time working in a restaurant or you know, as you say,

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Speaker 1: a bar they have, they are a much better chance

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Speaker 1: of getting a job as an engineers at whatever they are,

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Speaker 1: you know, a designer, an administrator, if they've actually worked

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Speaker 1: in those jobs. Because it does teach you. I work

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Speaker 1: in a restaurant every day, and I think that I

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Speaker 1: see the young people who come to work, or even

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Speaker 1: for myself, it teaches you to be aware of people.

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Speaker 1: It teaches you to be you know, energetic when you're

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Speaker 1: feeling tired. You know, about performing, about dealing with a problem,

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Speaker 1: and I think those skills about and I also think

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Speaker 1: it teaches you about working with colleagues. Don't you how

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Speaker 1: to work with us?

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Speaker 2: You know, I hired you know, when I look to

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Speaker 2: hire people, I look for the exact same characteristics. I

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Speaker 2: also look for people who had been traveled, who travel

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Speaker 2: have been out in the world and been somewhere and

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Speaker 2: knew some cultural nuance. And you know, the world's really

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Speaker 2: the greatest classroom. So those those two qualities where people

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Speaker 2: learn how to improvise and act on their feet and change,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and relate to different kinds of people,

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Speaker 2: really important. I mean I'd take that over someone who's

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Speaker 2: just had a history of internships at Goldman Sachs and

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Speaker 2: you know, not as interesting.

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Speaker 1: What kind of drinks did you make did you could

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Speaker 1: you make me amazing martin? What's what? Give me a

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Speaker 1: recipe for a great cocktail?

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Speaker 2: Well, in those days it was you know, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: this sophisticated artists in type. You know, cocktail med with

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Speaker 2: some guy with a ponytail, who's you know, laboring and

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Speaker 2: slicing fruit in all these directions. But a lot of

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Speaker 2: it was beer, you know, Scotch and water scotch and soda, screwdrivers.

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Speaker 2: I could make a martini, I could make a Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: I was well when I lived in the in the

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Speaker 2: in the Caribbean, I like I did develop a tropical repertoire,

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Speaker 2: you know, the nakeries and pinacoiladas and so forth. So

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Speaker 2: that was that was fun. I learned a lot you drink?

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Speaker 1: What are you drinking? What would you have? You having

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Speaker 1: a cocktail tonight? What would you have?

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Speaker 2: I have? Like a voka martini?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a hand to kill? All the people

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Speaker 1: listening to this how to make the perfect to martini?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, uh some I was just in London

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Speaker 2: at Clarages and I had the greatest martini and they

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Speaker 2: told me, I said, wow, how did you do that?

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Speaker 2: It's like not too watered down. I mean it stirred.

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Speaker 2: You know, when people shake a martini too much, it

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Speaker 2: gets a little too watery. But they would pre mix them.

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Speaker 2: You probably do this at the River Cafe. They pre

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Speaker 2: mix them and stick them in the freezer and the

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Speaker 2: glasses in the freezer, so it comes out almost like

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Speaker 2: this molten liquid and it's like high. It's highly potent

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Speaker 2: and very tasty. So that's a good tip. Another one

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Speaker 2: is if you like a dry martini, there's a little

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Speaker 2: device you can get, just like a little aerosol and

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Speaker 2: you can sort of squirt a little bit around the glass.

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Speaker 2: That's what I do. I mean, I'm I'm pretty simple

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Speaker 2: in my taste with people make an art out of

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Speaker 2: martini making. You must know that for sure.

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Speaker 1: My husband loved martini and my father used to make

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Speaker 1: a dry martini and he would turned out. People used

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Speaker 1: to say, Jim fred you make the greatest dry martinis.

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Speaker 1: And what he did was he didn't put any remouth

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Speaker 1: at all. He was just giving cold, really ice cold

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Speaker 1: vodka with a twist of lemon called it a martini.

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Speaker 2: The other thing is these days the martini glasses are

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Speaker 2: very large. They are having a martini it's like in

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Speaker 2: the old days that would have been too martinis.

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Speaker 1: The thing they have we have to get off the martinis.

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Speaker 1: But in the River Cafe, the big drink right now,

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Speaker 1: I don't if it's in America is when you see

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Speaker 1: espresso martinis. Have you had those? Yeah, plat trays of

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Speaker 1: espresso martinis going through the room.

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Speaker 2: It's like a sort of an alcoholic speedball.

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Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, maybe, But what about it? Is there just

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Speaker 1: one bar that you worked in a restaurant that you

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Speaker 1: remember that you remember is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I worked in this great bar on Martha's Vineyard

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Speaker 2: in Oak Bluff's called the lamppost Okay, which was like

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Speaker 2: the place where everybody on the island passed through. If

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Speaker 2: you were like a trust funder or a beach bum

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Speaker 2: or a rock star or a carpenter or some beautiful

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Speaker 2: girl who was spending the summer, you know, with a

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Speaker 2: summer job on the vineyard. Everyone would hang out at

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Speaker 2: the vineyard. We had these really raucous, joyous, hoppy hours.

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Speaker 2: It was a fantastic spot and I was one of

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Speaker 2: the two bartenders there. So there was a great, great

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Speaker 2: way to spend the summer. Because of course you have

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Speaker 2: your days off I picked up a lot there. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it keeps off the streets at night. It's a good

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Speaker 2: place to meet girls and you can make some money,

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Speaker 2: and it's a trade you can travel with