Death in the Afternoon

PH factor: 8.5

Recipe

Ingredients:

Cocktail

o 4 ½ ounces champagne

o 1 ½ ounces Pernod Absinthe

Supérieure

Method:

1. Pour absinthe into a flute or coupe glass.

2. Add champagne.

Remarks:

An ingredient list and a recipe

as terse as any of the writings

of the man credited with its

creation. Simple though it may

seem the end result is a classic.

Hemingway's novel of the same

name actually came out years

after the cocktail.

. . .