Reviving a Corpse
What a Week
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| Still your mind with the Corpse Reviver #2, namaste. |
Between the news (I’m looking at you climate change and Supreme Court) and the countdown for my husband’s deployment I’ve been having some sleepless nights.
Endless lists and ideas go around my head at 2:30 am - it’s like a carousel that I can’t get off of (pay property taxes, need to organize a birthday party, need to start working on Halloween costumes, boys are out growing everything, need to get new shoes and winter coats, walk more because of global warming, what kind of world am I leaving my kids, am I giving them the right emotional tools, what the hell am I going to do without my husband for 9 months, AHHHHH!!). Then I work on my breathing and try to meditate like Julz and ever so slowly fall back to sleep. Before I know it the morning comes, everyone gets off to work and school and then when dinnertime rolls around I’m dragging. Enter the Corpse Reviver #2.
Meditation in Cocktails
There is something meditative and
relaxing in making a proper cocktail. I enjoy taking out all the ingredients and I have
a Pavlovian response when I hear the ice in the cocktail shaker, I instantly feel more relaxed. The great thing about the Corpse Reviver #2
is that it’s equal parts – so not too much thinking is required.
Corpse Reviver #2
¾ oz. London Dry Gin (I use
Tanqueray)
¾ oz. Cointreau
¾ oz. Lillet Blanc
¾ oz. lemon juice
2 dashes absinthe (I use the local
Mt. Defiance Absinthe Superieure)
Shake all ingredients with ice, and
then strain into a coupe. No garnish.
Side note: I first noticed the
Corpse Reviver #2 in my Savoy Cocktail Book (best birthday present from Rind)
and then had one at my local restaurant, Bucks Camping & Fishing. From my quick internet research it looks like
this cocktail’s first appearance is in the Savoy cocktail book and Harry
Craddock humorously notes “Four of these taken in swift succession will
unrevive the corpse again.”
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