Cookin’ With The KingDude: The Amazing History & The Making of The Martini
by Mike Church The Martini story is an amazing one as are all great cocktail creation stories. The origin of the drink begins with a breakout of kidney disorders in Denmark in the 17th century. A Doctor Francois de Boe Sylvius concocted a liquor made with grain alcohol then sweetened by steeping the Juniper flower in it, he called it "genever"; a name the English later stole and shortened to […]