METAL STRAWS.

AuthorSuderman, Peter
PositionSTUFF - Brief article

The purpose of a cocktail garnish is to frame the drink: It influences how you perceive and experience it. A garnish hints at both the character of the concoction and the mood of the establishment in which it is served. Think of garnish as clothing for cocktails--a way of changing a drink's outfit.

The framing effect extends beyond the garnish to the rest of the presentation: the glass, the ice--even, when called for, the straw. Indeed, in recent years, many top-tier cocktail bars have taken to serving drinks with reusable metal straws, partly due to environmental concerns about plastic straws (currently under legal attack across the U.S. for their wildly exaggerated contribution to ocean waste) and partly for aesthetic effect.

A metal straw gives a...

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