Restating the "Riverside Cocktail" question
Loving everyone's suggestions for cocktails for Swordspoint!
It is, however, hard for me to imagine the actual people on the Hill or Riverside doing mixed drinks. --Though maybe that's my folly? The whole point of inventing that world was that it was a glorious stew of everything I particularly like. Maybe I need to spend more time down at Death & Company before I start the next volume. (And now I expect someone to explain to me the sociology or science of the creation of the cocktail. Yeah, I know I've read it somewhere . . . but you know you want to. Would there be a reason not/to have them create them now? Hmmm, maybe it would be like pizza - I mean, Tomato Pie. We've got that already down there. Maybe mixed drinks in the city are a strictly Low Class thing - a nice inversion of our Gilded Youth stuff - like, say, there's something really cheap like gin that's so awful you can only drink it by mixing it...... That woudl be hilarious. I wonder what they mix them in?)
Where was I?
Oh, yeah: Anyhow, please turn your mighty brains to this question:
If you were attending, say, a hypothetical promotional event for the audiobook I'm recording of Swordspoint, and there were a cocktail there that represented the, ah, spirit of the book - or of one of its characters, or of Riverside itself - what would it be?
It is, however, hard for me to imagine the actual people on the Hill or Riverside doing mixed drinks. --Though maybe that's my folly? The whole point of inventing that world was that it was a glorious stew of everything I particularly like. Maybe I need to spend more time down at Death & Company before I start the next volume. (And now I expect someone to explain to me the sociology or science of the creation of the cocktail. Yeah, I know I've read it somewhere . . . but you know you want to. Would there be a reason not/to have them create them now? Hmmm, maybe it would be like pizza - I mean, Tomato Pie. We've got that already down there. Maybe mixed drinks in the city are a strictly Low Class thing - a nice inversion of our Gilded Youth stuff - like, say, there's something really cheap like gin that's so awful you can only drink it by mixing it...... That woudl be hilarious. I wonder what they mix them in?)
Where was I?
Oh, yeah: Anyhow, please turn your mighty brains to this question:
If you were attending, say, a hypothetical promotional event for the audiobook I'm recording of Swordspoint, and there were a cocktail there that represented the, ah, spirit of the book - or of one of its characters, or of Riverside itself - what would it be?