Gin tonic divine existential Heidegger To see go to a dance club while I bite the lemon
a gin and tonic used ...
on your hip.
(Andres Calamaro)
The summer began for me with the first gin and tonic.
When one of the first warm days created a certain kind of thirst than the others. It is a thirst applied intense but concentrated in a certain sense, very different from the undifferentiated to be quiet with beer. Early summer also indicates the decline of the autumn sun called whiskey. Drinks are seasonal.
I do not think gin and tonic is a cocktail, the less secure version is not creeping popular that it is usually consumed. The version that at least I practice is far from absurd refinements. Only decision is mixed with the four elements that compose it without too many precautions. They are doing so (and drink) with a similar simplicity to which one lives.
In order of appearance is started by the gin, the most valuable but I think in this case the most important. A mediocre domestic version is more than enough to prepare an excellent gin and tonic. Everything else is marketing. A high-priced gin at the time served may serve as a display, but only show as the next day and only if it exceeded the recommended amount. The presence of gin should feel steadily but slightly in the bottom of the drink. As awareness must be present, but not to the point of drowning with guilt.
Then comes the lemon acts as an accident. That is, without being essential that gives the drink its individuality and joy. I prefer cut into wedges, squeeze them and then throw the glass deformed. Place a slice on the rim of the glass is frivolous. Accidents must serve the essence and not holding too much for your presence.
The third component is the ice, the solid body matter. I always thought that nothing defines both the social status as ice. There are large ice and stony hardness expressed with austere forms as having been recently pulled by a majestic glacier. In my house, however, the ice are small, obvious and hand geometry its cold too fast. With the ice still alive in a permanent sense of scarcity, which is on the other hand the destiny of all material.
Finally come the circumstances surrounding existence. You can do everything right and yet in adverse circumstances the best projects wrecked beyond repair. Tonic water is unpredictable and that always threatens to end gas shortage and ruin everything. Open the bottle and hear the sound of your compressed air is a moment of maximum tension. There are bottles that exhale a breath that has the consistency of the latter. The tone of the gin and tonic in his element lies eerily disembodied.
Finally, there is nothing but enjoy it better if served in a genuine glass of generous width. And wait for his passage through the throat surgery, we are excited for a moment with the idea that thirst can be definitively cured, as in a new silo.