Рецепт Friday Cocktail Hour: The Man About Town
A rum Negroni, otherwise called a Man About Town. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.
Surprisingly, though, she continues to read Friday posts and, following my hasty Negroni post (no link, Donna unhappy with photo), sent me a new cocktail made by Scott Fitzgerald (no, relation, though he does beat on, like all the rest of us boats) of the Mulberry Project in NYC.
What got me about Fitzgerald’s lovely cocktail was its variation on a personal fave, the Negroni (thus Sally’s clever suggestion—she gets Scott to create a rum drink featuring her client’s rum, then gets me to post on the drink; it’s all an incestuous little mingle, isn’t it?). But I loved the cocktail. First, I’m a sucker for variations on a theme (I wrote The Making of a Chef obsessively replaying these, specifically the 1955 recording, though I love the slow open of the 1981 version), and this, like the Boulevardier, is a Negroni variant. But! Not a simple swap-out of spirit for spirit like the Boulevardier (whiskey for gin), but rather a more thoughtful riff, this including three bitter elements, all of which I’m fond of.
By chance, @wisekaren alerted me this morning, that just yesterday seriouseats did a feature and slide-show on negroni variants in the city, which is excellent; though the beet negroni seems a tad ridiculous, I would rather have that than the Red Rooster variation, which is a Boulvardier (noted by seriouseats in the caption), not a Bourbon Negroni as they call it (I’ll lay odds they make an awesome vodka martini as well).
Without further adieu, with thanks to Madam Sally and Scott Fitzgerald, this week’s cocktail is the finely balanced Man About Town.
Cheers, and have a restorative weekend!
Man About Town
- 1.5 ounces good white rum (OK, Sally, Brugal 1888; I wouldn’t, and didn’t, turn it down.)
- 1 ounce sweet vermouth
- 0.75 ounce Campari
- several dashes orange bitters
- several dashes Angostura bitters
- orange peel for garnish
Stir all ingredients in a mixing glass. Strain and serve in a frosty coupe.
Garnish with an orange twist.
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