A drink...a potable...a cocktail so outlandish as to stir up the sensibility of the refined set. Gentlemen stiffen their necks, ladies clutch tightly onto their purses, children cover their ears and eyes alternatingly--or are told to do so. And the arbitors of taste--unctious hair and hiked up pants and all--wag their silly fingers, calling it decadent, originality gone out to sea. But who would care to argue with these fiddle-sticks.

Let's just enjoy this for what it is. A playful twist on a classic. And though it may strike the intellect as questionable--as it should--it should tickle the fancy as divine. What we have here will take its place alongside the Caesar's Salad as one of the great inventions of the Americas, for which new cuisines will be created. What we have here is the Anchovy Martini.