How to shake a cocktail:
The important thing is the rhythm. You should always have rhythm when you’re shaking. Now, a Manhattan you shake to fox trots. A Bronx, to two-step time. A dry martini you always shake to waltz time.
—Nick Charles, The Thin Man (1934)
Confession: The first time I tried to make a cocktail, I put the soda water in the shaker. I sprayed everyone in the room, but at least I had rhythm.
It was a mojito. I shook it to a mambo.
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