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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to food Stuff. I'm Angeries and I'm

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Speaker 1: Lauren Focalbam and this is another cocktail hour. Today we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the Martini. And this is a very special

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Speaker 1: cocktail hour. Oh yeah, it's the first one. We were

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Speaker 1: actually having a cocktail while we're recording it. So cheers, y'all,

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Speaker 1: Cheers and cheers Dylan, Um, this is my first time

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Speaker 1: having Martini. How are you enjoying it? I actually really

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Speaker 1: like it. It's it's not what I expected. I got

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Speaker 1: an extra dirty um, which we'll talk about more, but

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Speaker 1: basically it means all of a yeah juice, Brian, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I really like it. I technically got a vesper.

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Speaker 1: I can also mention that in a moment. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's let's start this episode off because of the Martini

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Speaker 1: is a huge cultural icon in America. So let's start

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Speaker 1: off with some some some quote. Yes, and this is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite things about um, the Martini, because

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Speaker 1: I did I didn't know much about it, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: and inspired so many quotes. There's so many great quotes

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Speaker 1: in this episode, so here are a few. Historian Bernard

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Speaker 1: Devoto described the Martini as the supreme American gift to

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Speaker 1: world culture. Satirist H. L. Mencken called it the only

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Speaker 1: American invention as perfect as the somnet. That is some

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Speaker 1: high phrase. A nineteen forties newspaper columnists wrote, more people

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Speaker 1: of Martinis than for any other reason. Dang could be true. Um,

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Speaker 1: and here's a poem, A martini poem by Ogden nationalist. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there is something about a martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant,

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Speaker 1: a yellow mellow martini. I wish that I had one

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Speaker 1: at present. There's something about a martini air the dying

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Speaker 1: and dancing begin. And to tell you, the truth is

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Speaker 1: not the verymouth. I think perhaps it's the gin. Thank you, Lauren,

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Speaker 1: thank you. But here this brings us to something we

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Speaker 1: should note. Oh, drink responsibly, y'all, especially when your drinks

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Speaker 1: have almost four ounces of liquor in them. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: please be responsible. Don't be breaking any glasses, are getting

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Speaker 1: divorces on account of martiniz now, please please do not

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Speaker 1: because it's it's partially the very muth, but it is

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Speaker 1: also definitely partially the gin. Yes, Nash was correct, So

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Speaker 1: the martini. What is it. What is it? According to

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Speaker 1: a bar like in Savannah, Georgia called Gin and Friends,

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Speaker 1: it is just about anything you can imagine with a

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Speaker 1: garnish of twigts. I actually really like that bar, but

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Speaker 1: I think you probably can get a traditional martini. There's

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Speaker 1: over a thousand different martinis I leave, maybe hundreds. I'm

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Speaker 1: probably exaggerating, uh pedantic, Lauren is She reacted very viscerally classically.

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Speaker 1: The martini is a very specific thing. It's just gin

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Speaker 1: and dry white vermouth and a roughly six to one

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Speaker 1: ratio three ounces of gin and about half an ounce

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Speaker 1: of vermouth. You shake or stir this with ice and

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Speaker 1: then strain it into a glass, either with a twist

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Speaker 1: of lemon or an olive for garnish. At this most

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Speaker 1: simple iteration, it is a showcase for the gin and

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Speaker 1: the vermouth, and the drink will taste simultaneously sort of

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Speaker 1: clean and rich, with notes including herbal, piny, floral, and savory.

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Speaker 1: Would you say that's what you're experiencing right now? I am.

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Speaker 1: And Lauren got to see me order the martini moments ago,

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Speaker 1: and there's a look of panic on my face when

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Speaker 1: the bartender said the twist dirty olive and luckily I

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Speaker 1: made the correct, non stupid decision. I did not ask

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Speaker 1: for the twist. I asked for all of dirty, right,

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Speaker 1: which means together yes and I mean stupid, as in,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the limon one is are the twist one

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Speaker 1: is also lovely. But I did not ask for all

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Speaker 1: three right, Yes, Okay, embarrassment avoided. Lowell Edmunds wrote about this,

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Speaker 1: this classic Martini. It's pleasure which is not voluptuous, but

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Speaker 1: a stringent can only be expressed by oxymoron, sensuous coldness,

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Speaker 1: opulent dryness, mysterious clarity, alluring purity. I love it because again,

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Speaker 1: that's one of those things. If you just read that

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Speaker 1: last bit, I would have no idea what you were

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Speaker 1: talking about, but I would want it part of it right.

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Speaker 1: This cocktail was the favorite of many famous people, from

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Speaker 1: Winston Churchill to Fdr Hemmingway all over him. I feel

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Speaker 1: like every cocktail was his favorite, depending on when you

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Speaker 1: ask whatever cocktail was in his hand. Hemming Way I

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Speaker 1: used the Martini as an insult in Across the River

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Speaker 1: and into the Trees when one character orders Montgomeryese, in

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Speaker 1: other words, fifteen parts gin to one part vermou. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The order was meant as a dig at Commander Montgomery,

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Speaker 1: who allegedly would not go into a battle without a

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Speaker 1: will revisit that in another episode. According to some sources,

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Speaker 1: FDR would host a daily Martini Hour in which he

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Speaker 1: made martiniz that were too heavy on the vermouth, like

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Speaker 1: two to one gin vermouth, which is a way that

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Speaker 1: some people drink them. But it's certainly heavier than the

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Speaker 1: than the norm. Right. Well, FDR apparently drink them this way,

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Speaker 1: this preparation method, and one would hope surreptitiously, uh pour

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Speaker 1: it into the potted plat. Yes. Um. Then again, when

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Speaker 1: FDR served it up to Stalin in Stalin was the

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Speaker 1: first time Martini drinker. Khrushchev declared the drink as America's

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Speaker 1: lethal weapon. Oh. One of Julia Child's favorite drinks was

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Speaker 1: the reverse Martini. That's five to one vermouth to gin

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Speaker 1: the reverse martini, and people love getting up in arms

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Speaker 1: about that vermouth to liquor ratio. Supposedly Churchill said about it,

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Speaker 1: I would like to observe the vermouth from across the

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Speaker 1: room while I drink my martini. Or that one should

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Speaker 1: glance at the vermouth bottle briefly while pouring the juniper

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Speaker 1: distolate freely well he was British. Or possibly that you

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Speaker 1: should drink ice called gin while bowing in the general

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Speaker 1: direction of France. Or that you should hold the vermouth

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Speaker 1: bottle over the shaker and just let light shine through it. Oh, Churchill.

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Speaker 1: That first quote looking across the room at the vermouth

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Speaker 1: has also been attributed to Alfred Hitchcock. Some folks just

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Speaker 1: do a vermouth rinse instead of adding it to the

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Speaker 1: shaker like UTAs a quarter ounce or so of vermouth

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Speaker 1: into the cocktail glass, twirl and then poured out before

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Speaker 1: straining in your your ice shaken or stirred gin. And

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Speaker 1: supposedly Lyndon B. Johnson preferred this version. But hey, y'all,

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Speaker 1: what the heck is vermouth? I had no idea we

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Speaker 1: did this. It's a Vermouth is a wine that has

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Speaker 1: been infused with various botanicals, specifically wormwood, also probably including saffron, coriander, camemel,

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Speaker 1: of a neutral spirit like udaged brandy. And the dry

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Speaker 1: white version was created in France around eighteen hundred. This

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Speaker 1: is a definitely whole episode kind of territory. That's a

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Speaker 1: very brief ah yeah definition. And while we're defining things,

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Speaker 1: gin is a neutral spirit that is also infused infused

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Speaker 1: with botan goals, including juniper and a whole mess of

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Speaker 1: other herbs and spices. We talked about it in our

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Speaker 1: about it. So so go go check those out if

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Speaker 1: you would like to learn more about gin. Some folks

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Speaker 1: do use a vodka instead of gin to make martiniz.

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Speaker 1: You can also add in a bit of olive brine

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Speaker 1: for that dirty martini, or a drop or two of bitter,

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Speaker 1: specifically orange bitters. My bartender slash chef friend Darryl makes

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Speaker 1: a version with a few drops of olive oil floated

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Speaker 1: on top instead of an olive garnish. And if you

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Speaker 1: add a cocktail onion instead of an olive, it's a gibson.

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Speaker 1: If you use both vodka and gin, add the vermouth

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Speaker 1: and then have a lemon twist, that's a vesper, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is what I'm drinking right now. Oh and that

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Speaker 1: teeny suffix. Oh yeah, there's there's billions of martinis that

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Speaker 1: you can order at places. Yeah, you may have noticed

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Speaker 1: to my mind because of the scrubs quote appalt, please

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Speaker 1: easy on the teen um. And this has nothing really

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Speaker 1: to do with the Martini the drink, and all to

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Speaker 1: do with a V shaped martini glass. Oh yeah, which

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get into in a minute. Yes, um.

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Speaker 1: And I also read Sex in the City helped inspire

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Speaker 1: we drinking cosmos out of the Martini glass? It became

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Okay, Okay, so that's the basics. But

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some history. Yeah, this is one of

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Speaker 1: those great ones. But first let's take a quick break

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Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank

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Speaker 1: you sponsor, okay, Martini history. Yeah, since two the combination

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Speaker 1: of gin and Vermouth has gone by the Martini, the Martini,

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Speaker 1: the Martini, the Martini, the Martineau, and the Martinez. And

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Speaker 1: these early versions were sweeter, more like Manhattan's that were

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Speaker 1: it would be bidders and orange bidders to kind of

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Speaker 1: make up for that Carusou's absence. And as these names

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Speaker 1: might indicate, multiple origin stories exist. Oh, it wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: a cocktail hour without it wouldn't very much. Reminds me

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Speaker 1: a name and that's who invented it, parafect. There you go,

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Speaker 1: end of episode. It's possible that more than one person

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Speaker 1: apparently he rarely strayed from it, so it's friends of

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Speaker 1: like Nope. In eighteen eighty four, New York Cocktail Guide

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen forties, people start theorizing that maybe the

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Speaker 1: drink came from Martinez, California. This woman gets really muddy,

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Speaker 1: celebrate his findings, ordered the drink special. But whatever was

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Speaker 1: The bartender called it a Martinez, after the town. This

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Speaker 1: is the official story on the Martinez website, although I

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Speaker 1: read many alternate versions, including one the um the minor

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Speaker 1: he was actually celebrating. He wasn't celebrating at all. He

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Speaker 1: was like, to fix me. Whatever you've got, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: so take it with a grain of salt. There's a

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Speaker 1: Vermouth Martini pun in there, but I can't make it

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Speaker 1: right now, It's okay. San Francisco also lays claim to

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Speaker 1: the Martini, as does New York City. In eighteen sixty three,

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Speaker 1: an Italian Vermouth company was marketing one of its products

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Speaker 1: as a Martini. Um might recognize it. Martini and Rossi.

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Speaker 1: Vermouth still a very large player in the field. Another

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Speaker 1: story goes that after France left Syria and a Syrian

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Speaker 1: man with the last name Martini relocated to Paris and

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Speaker 1: the drink did already exist, but Martini the person's contribution

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Speaker 1: big Problemt's Realist even compiled a neat almost conspiracy level

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Speaker 1: They're all connected timeline. It begins with a bartender named

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Speaker 1: Martini Diarmatagia making Martini at the Knickerbucker Hotel in New

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Speaker 1: York for one John D. Rockefeller, Okay, who then in

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Speaker 1: And yes, vodka martini is not a martini A Martini's

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Speaker 1: this time, Lauren. I think you should go first. Oh

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, don't freak me out. I've been drinking

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Speaker 1: I stayed up very late. Um. Thanks to both of

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Speaker 1: Our email is food Stuff at Asda works dot com.

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Speaker 1: producer Dylan Fagan, who does not like gin good to know.

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