1935 So Red the Nose or Breath in the Afternoon

Arthur Meeher^ «Jr.

VESTAL VIRGIJV Cocktail

%GIN Va COINTREAU Va LEMON JUICE Arthur meeker, who has gained anational réputation for his unconventional method o£ shaking up cocktails, ^ writes, "This prescription, of Swiss origin (I believe it was first tried at the Palace Bar in St. Moritz), is commonly known as a White Lady; but what else can you call a Vestal Virgin? (Add a drop of honey if you like; my heroine had a sweet voice.) "It is a good cocktail, but VERY STRONG. "I bave not drunk one for years. In fact, as a rule, I do not drink cocktails at ail, nor highballs, nor any form of mixed drinks. However, if you should ask me to open a bottle of Liebfraumilch '21 before dinner, or a really good year of Clos Vougeot or Château Neuf du Pape, l'd not object. I like Rhine wines and Moselles for steady diet, red clarets and Burgundies (and dry white ones) on occasion, and a glassof sherry or Porto Blanc with a pâté de foie gras sandwich be fore lunch. And a stein of Miinchener Lôtvenbrau (light) at any time, above anything else in the world. "Have no eccentricities that I can think of except a passion for (a) Alpine excursions accompanied by dachs- hunds, (b) whistling the major arias of Mozart, (c) collecting minor French seventeenth-century memoirs, and (d) reading Baedekers in bed."