Episode 257 - Gin Tonica with David T. Smith

The Modern Bar Cart Podcast · Feb 23, 2023 · 1h 4m

In this lively chat with David T. Smith, spirits judge, consultant, and author of Gin Tonica, some of the topics we discuss include:

A history of the Gin & Tonic cocktail, which turns out to be a bit more punk and DIY than it's often played up to be, as well as a bit more recent than we like to romanticize.

The ways in which cultural differences in the US and the UK, like the widespread adoption of ice and the proximity to fresh citrus, worked to generate strikingly different conceptions of what we imagine as a "classic" gin & tonic.

Then, of course, we explore how a few chefs in the Basque…