ian fleming

[ON THE ROAD]

Does anyone know according to Ian Fleming's novels, (not the films) what James bond's favourite drink was.

[Mikeyd2]

This comes from an article about Martini's. The difference being that Bond had Vodka and Gin in it.

Bond's drink. He takes vodka and gin in them. Ian Fleming gives a recipe for his Bond's preferred libation in the first Bond book, Casino Royale (1953), chapter 7:

"A dry martini," he said. "One. In a deep champagne goblet."

"Oui, monsieur."

"Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?"

He calls this a vesper, after the beautiful double agent from the book (n.b.: Kina Lillet is a brand of vermouth). In other appearances, Bond requests a "medium vodka dry martini," sometimes ordered shaken not stirred. From his vesper recipe, I take "medium vodka dry" to mean he wants a "medium" amount of vodka mixed in with his gin, but who knows?

[LordyGeordie]

i've not read them but i always thought in the books he had vodka-martini stirred not shaken. apparently they only started saying shaken not stirred in the films when sean connery got a line wrong but cubby broccoli thought it sounded better.

apparently the way to make vodka-martini is to stir rather than shake as shaking breaks the ice cubes causing them to melt faster and water down the drink