The Nalo Smash
This week back in 1993, Chad Rowan, aka Akebono, became the first foreign-born athlete to reach yokozuna - the highest rank in sumo wrestling. Hear how he did it, then throw yourself off-balance with an East-meets-West cocktail:
“The ‘Nalo Smash” - created by Tim Rita, bartender at Halekulani’s Lewers Lounge on Akebono’s home island of Oahu:
- 3 shiso leaves
- 2 sprigs mint
- 1 oz. honey
- 1 1/2 oz. coconut puree
- 2 oz. Suntory Yamazaki single-malt whiskey
- nutmeg
Muddle the mint, two shiso leaves, and the honey. Add coconut puree and Suntory, shake it all up, and strain in a rocks glass over ice. Dust with nutmeg and throw down the final shiso leaf - a stamp right across the top before you get smashed.
In this situation it’s worth to think about increasing competence of EUROPOL, maybe even raise is to the rank of Institution of EU, and allowing it to make the decisions (but obviously not the controversial or crucial ones) that would be binding for national EUROPOL agencies (except of course of agencies of EUROPOL from states that are not members of EU). Such a solution would make EU’s policy towards crime more flexible, and therefore more effective.