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Gone With The Wind Cocktails For the 80th Anniversary of the Book
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Gone with the Wind 80th Anniversary
Today we raise our glasses to the 80th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell‘s Gone with the Wind, published 80 years ago today in 1936. It became one of the best-selling novels of all time. We are marking the occasion with two of the official Gone with the Wind cocktails spawned by the merchandising mania that followed the release of the film version.
In 1926, Margaret Mitchell was recovering from a ankle injury — she was quite accident prone — and was forced to leave her job at the Atlanta Journal, where she had worked as a reporter since 1922. Faced with all of this idle time, Mitchell soon grew restless and began writing out of sheer boredom. John R. Marsh, her second husband, bought her a Remington typewriter and though she hated writing and though her work was “a rotten book”, was eventually convinced to have it published.
Although Gone With The Wind would be her only novel, Mitchell won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for her work. The book was adapted for the screen in 1939 and became one of the highest-grossing films of all time and would go on to win 9 Academy Awards
Margaret Mitchell Trivia:
- She stood a mere 4 feet 11 inches tall, but was incredibly strong for her size.
- She had a sharp tongue and was no stranger to using profanity
- She smoked three packs of cigarettes a day and drank heavily
- She occurred an unusual number of injuries and accidents, including three automobile accidents, two falls from a horse, severe burns from when her clothes caught fire, and a concussion from a bottle of whiskey thrown at her head.
- She died in 1949 at age 48, five days after being hit by a speeding car in downtown Atlanta.
photo by Chris Yunker via flickr.com
Gone with the Wind Cocktails
Southern Comfort was one of the many traditionally southern brands to participate in commercial tie-ins with the 1939 movie release. The Scarlet O’Hara proved particularly popular and was billed as a “Grand Old Drink from the South.” SoCo’s New York ad campaign read: “try it in a Scarlet O’Hara cocktail, but no more than two lest you be Gone with the Wind.”
The Scarlet O’Hara
Photo by Noir Dame Productions via flickr.com
Ingredients:
- 2 ounces Southern Comfort
- Dash of lime juice
- 6 ounces cranberry juice
Glass: Collins
Garnish: lime wedge
Method:
Shake with ice and strain into a sour or Collins glass. Garnish.
The Rhett Butler
Ingredients
- 2 oz Southern Comfort
- 1/2 oz orange curacao
- 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
- 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: lemon twist
Method
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
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Today we mark the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II (also known as William II), last Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia who passed away 75 years ago on June 4th. Wilhelm, who had been deposed following Germany’s loss in World War I (abdicating in November 1918), had been living in exile in the Netherlands.
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Although the Kaiser enjoyed smoking, a vice which put his father into an early grave, Wilhelm II both ate and drank rather sparingly. At court banquets, he would often let multiple courses pass him by completely and took only meager quantities when he did actually decide to eat.
Alcoholic beverages were rare for the Imperial couple, and though the Kaiser would on occasion drink a light German beer or sparkling red wine when dining late, Wilhelm and his wife would usually have fruit juice at mealtime and were known to be particularly fond of orange juice.
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Despite all of this, the Boston Globe, recounts the story of the Kaiser thoroughly enjoying multiple American “kochtaels” with Captain Robley D. “Fighting Bob” Evans during a ship-board (probably the U.S.S. Yorktown) meal on Jan 19, 1895 at the opening of the Kiel canal. For a full account of the Wilhelm II’s first encounter with the cocktail, check out Cocktail 101’s account of the tale.
Cocktail Trivia:
Kaiser Wilhelm II loved the cocktail, but it was his brother Prince Henry — a decoratedGerman naval officer — who was honored with one named after him. On his 1902 visit to the United States, the Waldorf Astoria honored the Prince with his own drink:
Prince Henry
- 1.5oz Gin
- 1.5oz Dry vermouth
- Dash Creme de menthe
- Dash Orange bitters
- Lemon twist
Add all liquids to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir. Strain into a chilled Martini glass or coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Kaiser Wilhelm II – Drinking Quotes:
- You English people, you drink those awful fiery spirits — horrible stuff — whisky, brandy, what not? How can you imbibe such quantities of poisonous liquid — ruining your constitutions? Simply ruining them — whisky-and-soda everywhere — no, it’s awful: I tasted it once — like liquid fire — ugh! Your drinking habits are fearful. – to Anne Topham
- “A ‘kochtael’, you say? Delicious! Humph!” – to Captain Robley D. Evans, Jan 19, 1895.
- Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world.
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