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What was James Bond's favorite drink?

Not vodka with martini at all.

An in-depth study of Ian Fleming's legacy at www.atomicmartinis.com found that 007 averaged one drink for every seven pages.

Of the 317 drinks consumed, Bond's favorite was, without a doubt, whiskey: James drinks whiskey 101 times, of which 58 bourbons and 38 scotch. Bond, by the way, is not averse to indulging in champagne (thirty glasses), and in one of the books, You Only Live Twice (1964), where the action mainly takes place in Japan, he even tries sake. Which, I must say, is to the taste of the agent: James is applied to the sake thirty-five times.

The vodka + martini cocktail, which is considered to be Bond's favorite drink, 007 chooses only nineteen times - and about the same number of times (sixteen) Bond is mixed martini with gin (however, most of these cocktails are treated to him by others).

The famous phrase "shaken but not mixed" first appears in Diamonds Are Forever (1956), but is not used by Bond himself until Dr. No (1959). The first on-screen Bond to say "shake but not mix" was Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964), after which the phrase has appeared in almost every film. In 2005, the National Film Institute overwhelmingly ranked her as the 90th greatest movie quote of all time.

James Bond's personal recipe, devised in his first book, Casino Royale (1953), is: "Three parts Gordon, one vodka, and half a Keena Lillet. Shake well, chill to ice, and add a long , a thin spiral of lemon peel".

This is the only time Bond mixes gin with vodka. He names his cocktail Vesper, after Vesper Lind, a double agent and his love interest in the novel. By the way, of all the Bond girls, Vesper is the record holder for drinking alcohol.

Why is Bond so insistent on "shaken" martinis? Strictly speaking, shaken in a shaker gin + dry vermouth is called "Bradford". Purists will, of course, wrinkle their noses, as the influx of air caused by churning oxidizes—or, as connoisseurs say, "destroys"—the aroma of gin. However, this problem does not exist with vodka: on the contrary, shaking makes the cocktail colder and stronger.

Fleming himself preferred martinis precisely shaken and with gin. In a later period of his life, the writer, on the advice of doctors, switched to bourbon, which, in general, explains the addiction of the author's favorite hero. Fleming and Bond - these two knew a lot about life.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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