you don't know jack
Two D.C. guys set out in search of a Jack Rose. I'm game to try one if anyone wants to join me. In other cocktail news, I flubbed my first effort at mojitos the other night. Make sure you use extra-fine sugar. Also from the Post food section: cilantro tips.Last August, one of us read Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." Jake, the narrator of this classic chronicle of the Lost Generation, drinks a "Jack Rose" cocktail while waiting to meet Lady Brett Ashley at a bar in Paris. What was in the drink, and why would this particular character enjoy it? A passing question, to be sure. But, for whatever reason, we both remembered it.
So we decided to taste the Jack Rose, expecting to enjoy about 20 minutes of harmless whimsy. We would drink this cocktail, briefly imagining ourselves in 1920s Paris, and then turn our minds back to our lives in contemporary Washington.
It didn't work out that way.
Comments
I'm not sure I'd call cilantro "pungent", but there certainly are a lot of people who can't stand it at all, including my father. Table salsa just tastes wrong without it--takes some of the edge off the acidity of the tomatoes.
From the article:
seviche
*snicker* Do you eat this with 'yellow rice'? *snicker*
Posted by: LionIndex | June 18, 2003 4:55 PM
I "hated" cilantro... -until- I realized how essential it is to salsa, and of course how delicious.
Posted by: sudama | June 18, 2003 9:33 PM
Have you ever bathed with Maria a cacao? It's a cilantro-like leaf that, when you smush it up in water, creates a frothy green soapy liquid that you can rub on your body to clean yourself and to ease the uncomfortablity of mosquito bites. Just a little tip from an island inhabitant.
Posted by: penche | June 19, 2003 9:06 AM