A CENTURY (OR MORE) OF MARTINIS: This Website claims that the Martini was invented a century ago; the late, lamented Wired Cocktail Website (sadly now only available via the Wayback machine, or on dead tree in a now-out-of-print book) notes that its origins go back longer than that, to its predecessor cocktail, the Martinez, of the 1880s. In any case, the cocktail’s origins — and its proper mixology — are well worth debating over a Martini or two. Or three, unless you’re Dorothy Parker.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)