Cocktail chatter

Two very different approaches to writing about drinks: Kingsley Amis and Bernard DeVoto

Sayre’s Law states: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."  I’ve noticed this in the booze world. Some people take the question of whether a Martini should be shaken or stirred, or whether to put fruit in an Old Fashioned very seriously. This can make much speciality drink writing a littl…