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Winter’ 12 | sunflowerpub.com

Story by Karen Ridder

Photography by Jason Dailey

Ashia Ackov as Daisy Buchanan

DRINK THE GREAT GATSBY You can read ﬁction, and you can imbibe in it

ach year, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library selects one book for a citywide reading program called “The Big Read.” This year’s selection recalls a time of rich indulgences, high living, deceit and passion. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is set in the early 1920s, during Prohibition, but none of his fictional characters seem to notice. From highballs to Gin Rickeys and straight whiskey, the drinks rarely stop flowing in this award-winning work of fiction. We asked a group of talented Topeka drink specialists to create original drinks based on the characters of The Great Gatsby. They’re perfect for drinking as you read this American classic, or simply as an introduction to the book’s memorable characters. Because, after all, this great work of fiction demands some great drinks.

about the

WRITER

Karen Ridder says a drink to describe her life would be slightly less glamorous and would deﬁnitely include coffee. When she is not writing for local publications, she often escapes into books of all kinds and enjoys discussing them with the Boswell Book Club.

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DAISY’S GREEN LIGHT GIMLET: “Fresh” is the ﬁrst impression given by the mix of melon and citrus in this drink. It is an illusion created by a sweet rim with lime zest that hides a tart reality in the glass. “It’s a sweet, sweet, sour, sour,” says creator Danny Estrada. Just like its namesake.

Ingredients for Daisy’s Green Light Gimlet: 8 ounces lowball rocks glass 2 ounces of Absolute Citron 2 ounces of Midori melon liquor 2 whole limes 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar 1 tablespoon sugar Cut one lime in half. Run the edge of a lime wedge around the rim of the glass. Combine sugars on a plate. Turn the glass upside down in sugar mixture to line the rim of the glass. Fill the glass with ice. Zest skin of the lime on the edge and top of the ice. Squeeze full juice of the second lime in a metal tin shaker. Add remaining sugar from plate to taste. Fill shaker half full with ice. Add Absolute Citron and Midori Melon Liquor. Give 6 hard shakes. Strain over ice. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Creator:

DANNY ESTRADA

FROM AJ’S NY PIZZERIA

Daisy Buchanan

as described in The Great Gatsby: Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difﬁcult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

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Tom Buchanan

as described in The Great Gatsby: “He was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.”

HOT TOM BUCHANAN: Steamed milk and honey hidden at the bottom of this espresso and Creator: whiskey drink give a nod HOLLY BASTIN to the golden sweetness OF PT’S FLYING MONKEY of Tom Buchanan’s money that drew Daisy in. Mix it in, and it is easy to forget the dark side of this drink.

Ingredients for Hot Tom Buchanan: 8 ounce Irish coffee glass 2 ounces Sin Fire (cinnamon whiskey) 2 ounces espresso 1 cup steamed milk 1 tablespoon honey NOTE: Concentrated coffee and hot milk may be used as a substitution for the espresso and steamed milk Andrew Entsminger as Tom Buchanan and Jennifer Whedon as Myrtle Wilson

Squeeze or spoon 1 tablespoon of honey in the bottom of the glass. Add the Sin Fire whiskey. Add the hot espresso. Fill to the top with steamed milk. Serve with a spoon.

GATSBY’S MARTINI: Rich, simple and a little mysterious—this drink mixes an old color with a modern sleekness. “It has that bite in the back of your palate that shows it’s strong and manly, but it goes down easy,” says creator John Branch. Served chilled and meant to be sipped, the taste of this drink hardens as it sits and collects the ﬂavor of Gatsby’s complicated ﬁgure.

Ingredients for Gatsby’s Martini: Standard Martini Glass 2 ounce Disaronno Amaretto 1 ounce Grand Marnier orangeﬂavored brandy liqueur 2 lemon wedges Fill a mixer half full with ice. Place two lemon wedges in the mixer on top of the ice. Add the amaretto and orange cognac. Shake hard for 10 seconds until the pulp of the lemon is released. Pour into a chilled glass; allow the pulp of the lemon to sit on top of the drink. Serve without garnish.

Creator:

JOHN BRANCH

OF THE BURGER STAND

James Gatz, “The Great Gatsby,”

as described in The Great Gatsby: It was a testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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Thanks to Jayhawk Tower, Jayhawk Java Coffee Shop, The Office, The Burger Stand, AJ’s NY Pizzeria and PT’s Flying Monkey for providing photo shoot locations. Models provided by Theatre Department of Washburn University and Mismatched Misfitz. Costuming provided by Mismatched Misfitz and Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy.

Creator:

MARIE BRANDYBERRY OF PT’S FLYING MONKEY

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The athletic and dubious Jordan Baker requires a drink that’s fresh with a bite. The heavy whipping crème and cinnamon ﬂavor provides a deceptively pure impression, hiding the hard reality of the whiskey behind its light taste.

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Ingredients for Cool Jordan Baker: 8 ounce standard rocks glass 1 ounce Sin Fire cinnamon whiskey 1 ounce Copa De Oro coffee liqueur 2 ounces heavy whipping crème 1 cinnamon stick

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Mix all liquid ingredients in a shaker ﬁlled with ice. Strain over ice. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Jordan Baker

as described in The Great Gatsby: The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something—most affectations conceal something eventually…she was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and given this unwillingness I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard jaunty body.

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