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Mad Cocktails-The Drinks of Mad Men

August 16, 2009 By 15 Comments

Joan Holloway
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The preceding men may call the shots, but the offices of Sterling Cooper Advertising would fall to pieces without head secretary and office manager, Joan Holloway played by the sultry Christina Hendricks. A curvy bodied, yet strong minded woman, Joan epitomizes the Marilynesque woman of the 60’s who every man wanted, and every woman wanted to be. In a tough man’s world she can handle her own. But when she’s faced with succumbing to the stereotypes of marriage she needs a drink as strong as any to get her through. A classically fresh and sophisticated Tom Collins leaves a girl like Joan relaxed and ready to tackle the next challenge.

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Ingredients
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 tsp sugar or simple syrup
1½ oz of Tanqueray gin
Lemon slices
Instructions
Mix sugar, gin and juice over ice in mixing glass, Stir, strain in cocktail glass, with ice and top it off with soda water. Garnish with lemon slices.

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  1. HDawg says:
    August 17, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    Love this article; makes me want to try every single one of these cocktails while watching a Mad Men marathon!

  2. Aron says:
    August 22, 2009 at 9:40 am

    A little surprised we do not see the Moscow Mule taking a supporting role. It was the drink that shifted America from Gin to Vodka (clear spirits only of course). Invented in the ’40s and popular by early ’50s it would fit in quite nicely since its popularity is traced back to a marketing idea – promotional glassware ie. Copper Mug.

    Ingredients:
    1 1/2 oz Smirnoff vodka
    1/2 oz elixir g ginger mix
    Fill with lemon lime soda
    Garnish with lime wedge

    Instructions
    Pour vodka & elixir g into copper mug. Fill with lemon lime and garnish

    Cheers.

  3. oldfashioned says:
    August 24, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Proper way to make an old-fashioned: http://www.brilliantcocktails.com/archives/19

  4. vijay saini says:
    September 28, 2009 at 6:41 am

    i want coctail detials pls

  5. Laura says:
    October 8, 2009 at 3:36 am

    Here are a few fun alternatives from Paper! http://www.papermag.com/blogs/2008/08/bar_of_the_week_special_the_co.php

  6. Bill F says:
    August 5, 2010 at 10:41 am

    That’s an *acceptable* Old-Fashioned, but Don Draper drinks his the top-shelf way. Rye, not bourbon.

  7. goodgoy says:
    September 17, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    WE LOVE MAD MAD AND USED THEM IN OUR FRONT PAGE FOOD SECTION ARTICLE FOR THE LOS ANGLES TIMES, THURSDAY, SEPT 16, 2010
    GOOGLE THIS OR HER IS LINK
    http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-swizzle-stick-20100916,0,6723869.story

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