The Negroni is not a casual drink. It doesn’t come with a fruit umbrella. It doesn’t need a blender. It’s three ingredients, equal parts, stirred — not shaken — and served in a rocks glass with one large ice cube and an orange peel that you actually express before you drop it in. It has a color that’s somewhere between ruby and garnet depending on the light. It tastes like someone made a decision. Count Camillo Negroni walked into a bar in Florence in 1919 and asked the bartender to put gin in his Americano instead of soda water. The bartender obliged. The count gave the drink his name and then died four years later, presumably satisfied with his contribution to civilization. Over a hundred years later, the Negroni consistently ranks in the top ten most ordered cocktails in the world. Ther...
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