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COCKTAILS
MADE IN HEAVEN!
LEOPARD
BAR & LOUNGE
The Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa
  
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Stork
Club Martini
1 ½ oz Gin
1 oz Ilala
orange juice
splash lime juice and bitters
Shake
with ice and strain into a stemmed cocktail glass.
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The Stork
Club in its prime was the top of the pops. Launched during
prohibition in the 20's as a swanky speakeasy, it closed its
doors in 1965. A story goes that a struggling young
actress named Nancy enjoyed her cocktails there, often on the
arms of various beaus. To save on breakfast she always stashed
a couple of dinner rolls in her clutch bag. One evening a
waiter brought her a 'doggy bag' with some butter from the
owner, Sherman Billingsley, with a little note, "You may
enjoy some butter on my rolls!" Years later she returned
as a newly wed with her husband Ronald Reagan!
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Along
with champagne, caviar and truffles the social set took to glamorous
cocktails in the 1920's and discovered a world of cocktail heaven.
Colourful, frosted, iced concoctions that were twirled and whirled,
pulped and squeezed in bold or subtle combinations using flashy exotic
fruits and intriguing mixes. Shaken, stirred or layered cocktails became
the rage for decades to follow and were immortalised by Ian Flemming in
Gold Finger 1959 when James Bond orders the Martini - shaken not
stirred.
 
Eddie
Tanga with a French twist, straight from the Congo, discovered on first
arriving in South Africa that he had a talent for making creative cocktails
and he says, "If you can't make it look gorgeous, then it has
got to taste gorgeous! Not as simple as you think!" Yet Eddie has mastered
the art of the scintillating cocktail and produces them with both
alacrity and aplomb. His personal favourite a plain Mojito - light
white rum with fresh lime and mint topped up with soda!
Eddie's
tips:
When a cocktail demands fruit, keep it fresh! Fresh
pineapple crushed on the spot, freshly squeezed orange juice, fresh passion
fruit pulp and don't forget chilled glasses. Use the finest ingredients
and mixes and you will achieve the finest result.
  
 Crème
Brulée Martini
1
oz Grey Goose La Vanille (vanilla flavoured French vodka)
1 oz Frangelico
1/2 oz Cointreau
cream
chocolate flake
Combine
vodka, Frangelico and Cointreau and pour over a Maraschino cherry.
Carefully pour over chilled cream, using the back of a dessert spoon.
Serve with a crisp milk chocolate flake. Delicious!
 Italian
Strawberry Mojito
2
oz of white light rum (Bacardi)
2 oz sparkling wine
1/2 oz lime juice
1 brown sugar sachet
splash of Chambord/crème de fraise
fresh mint
fresh strawberry
Shake,
shake, shake and pour over crushed ice, add a strawberry and a sprig of
mint. Pop in the straw and serve! Fab
on a hot day!
 Passion
Caipirinha
splash
of Lime
1 whole fresh passion fruit (granadilla pulp)
2 oz Cachacha (or Germana Brazilian Rum)
2 sugar sachets
crushed ice
Shake,
shake, splash with lime pour into a chilled glass. Add fine slices of
lime or lemon, sprigs of mint and pour over crushed ice.
 Piña
Colada
fresh
pineapple
ice cream
finely crushed ice
coconut milk
pineapple juice
blended together
1 oz Bacardi
1 oz Coco Rico
1 oz Malibu
Blend
pineapple, coconut milk, pineapple juice, mixes and crushed ice.
Swirl, swirl with ice cream until creamy and frothy. Serve
immediately!
 
Quotes
from Consuming Passions by Jonathon Green
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A
member of The Leading Small Hotels of the World, The Twelve
Apostles Hotel and Spa is owned and managed by Red Carnation
Hotels, an association of personally and individually run hotels
under the Red Carnation flag.
The
five-star Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa is fifteen minutes from
the city of Cape Town and five minutes from Camps Bay at the foot
of the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range in a nature reserve with a
marine World Sanctuary directly in front of the hotel.
The
hotel's distinct and chic Azure restaurant, has spectacular sea
views with a private cinema and state-of-the-art conference
facilities for up to ninety people.
For
further information and reservations as well as spa packages call
+27 (21) 437-9000, Email
bookta@rchmail.com
or visit
http://www.12apostleshotel.com
The
winner of 'The Leading Small Hotels of the World Commitment to
Quality for Africa and the Middle East' for two consecutive
years: 2005, 2006
Voted 48th in the 'World's Top 100' category by Conde Nast
Traveler Magazine, October 2006
Voted '9th best in Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean Islands
Region' in the accommodation category by Conde Nast Traveler
Magazine, October 2006
A
SHOWCOOK.COM PRODUCTION
Photography by Franz Lauinger
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