The Stork Club
Jack Paar was a popular television talk show host with an emotional streak — this week in 1960, he walked off the set of “The Tonight Show” in the middle of a live broadcast. He’s also remembered for torpedoing the career of red-baiting gossip columnist Walter Winchell. Winchell’s seat of power was a bar called The Stork Club… and his drink of choice was a cocktail by the same name.
RECIPE as mixed by Colin Davis at The Rainbow Room in New York, NY:
In a shaker over ice, combine:
- 1/2 oz of triple sec
- 1 1/2 oz of gin
- 1/4 oz of fresh lime juice
- 1 oz fresh orange juice
- 1 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake vigorously, pour into a chilled martini glass with a garnish of orange peel, and sip quietly so as not to raise the ire of mercurial TV hosts.
