Microwave Cooking for One by Marie T Smith
Setting the Table: Glassware
Cocktail Glasses
Whatever your preference is for an evening
cocktail, be sure to serve it up in style. These cocktail glasses
directly from New York City will help you to do just that!

Deluxe Two-Piece Martini Chiller |
Deluxe Two-Piece Martini Chiller —
The secret of New York's coldest Martini is the
specially-designed glass chiller, a V-shaped conical Martini
glass that fits atop a balloon-shaped bowl. When the bowl is
filled with crushed ice, it provides the most practical method
yet devised for keeping the drink as cold as possible for as
long as possible.
Serve icy martinis at your home bar. (It also makes a versatile
sorbet or ice cream dish, and elegant caviar server). Holds
8-ounces. Each set includes 2 martini glass and chiller
combinations and arrives gift boxed. |

Tiki Lounge Glass |
Tiki Lounge Glass —
Zombie Alert! Keep the party surfin' with any number of retro
spirituals like the Scorpion, Missionary's Downfall, Zombie,
Blue Hawaiian, and Singapore Sling. Settle back with your
16-ounce Tiki Lounge Glass, rescued from Trader Vic's, string
some tiki lights around the living room, spin some Don Ho
records, and take a long, wicked sip of paradise. |

Original Blue Bar Martini Glass |
Original Blue Bar Martini Glass —
The Algonquin, a true New York landmark,
continues a tradition of elegance that made the hotel the toast
of New York's most quotable wits of the 1920s, including Robert
Benchley who posed the famous question: "Why don't you slip out
of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?"
Such luminaries as Benchley, Parker, George
S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Alexander Woollcott, and Heywood Broun
were frequent visitors to the Algonquin's Round Table for lunch,
where they would exchange ideas and gossip over martinis,
adroitly mixed in the Blue Bar and served in these glamorous 6-oz
cobalt-blue glasses. |

Private Lives Martini Glass |
Private Lives Martini Glass —
Celebrated playwright Noel Coward would never
have been caught dead without a full Martini glass and a
tailor-made tuxedo. Maybe that's why he always ended up at
"marvelous parties."
Start with these elegant,
swellegant 6-ounce Martini glasses (props in the Broadway
revival of Private Lives), add shaker, jigger, ice, gin
and vermouth — and turn the cocktail hour into an occasion, the
scene from a Noel Coward play. |

Peppermint Lounge Twist Martini Glass |
Peppermint Lounge Twist Martini Glass —
The Peppermint Lounge, or The "Pep," on West 45th
Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in New York City, was
the site where youth culture crossed generational and social
boundaries in the early 1960s. They twisted to the music of the
house band, Joey Dee and the Starliters, who had a number one
record with Peppermint Twist and starred in the movie, "Hey,
Let's Twist."
The dance craze inspired a
tall, 9¼-ounce martini glass, as quirky as the Peppermint Lounge
itself. The top of the glass has a classic and traditional
design, but halfway down the stem, a “Z” pattern gives the glass
a unique "twist." (These glasses are made thick and sturdy to
survive the rigors of a Twist Party). |

"Tippi" Martini Glass |
"Tippi" Martini Glass —
Decorative artist and glass designer Goran
Hongell was one of the pioneers of the Finnish glass tradition
whose works were popularized in Europe throughout the 1950s.
When Hitchcock discovered the martini glass at the Ritz Bar in
London, he bought a dozen to take back to his California home,
then used two of his own glasses in "The Birds" by putting them
in the hands of "Tippi" Hedren.
The elegant design of the
glass is classic in its simplicity and functionality. Its taper
shape fits comfortably in all sizes of hands. (5-ounces, 3¼").
Crafted of lead-free crystal. Evocative of a cinematic goddess,
circa 1963. |

Anchor-Hocking Manhattan Glass |
Anchor-Hocking Manhattan Glass —
It's rumored that the first Manhattan Cocktail
was shaken in 1846, by a Maryland bartender trying to revive an
injured duelist. He mixed rye whiskey, sugar syrup and bitters.
No word on the duelist, but one can assume he had a fighting
chance. From there, the drink traveled to Manhattan, where, in
the Gay Nineties, vermouth was substituted for syrup, paving the
way for today's recipe.
The Manhattan pattern is made
up of concentric ribs, influenced by the signature skyscrapers
of New York. These ribs are pointed so that if you rub your
fingernail across them, it will catch on each one and you can
hear a little "ting." The 9-ounce Manhattan pieces are heavier
than most cocktail glasses because of all the glass that goes
into making the ribs. You'll be less nervous about using them
around clumsy friends. |
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