Shaken & Stirred
Book Author William L. Hamilton
DescriptionI drank my first cocktail when i was six, in the mid-twentieth century, when martinis were sacramental, and the cocktail hour, or the “violet hour,†as Ian Fleming calls it in one of the James Bond novels, was a moment of prayer, poised like a thin chilled glass to the lips between the mortal pressures of the day and the infinity of night.