> I'm a writing a story for Men's Health magazine
(where I work) about all of
> the cool practical tips/advice that I've picked up
from reading hardboiled
> detective novels over the years--everything from how
to sweet talk someone to
> how mix a perfect cocktail to how to get out of a
sticky situation.
In one of the novels a bartender advises Phillip Marlowe on
the proper gin gimlet: equal parts gin and Rose's Lime
Juice
(this is tasty but will peel the enamel off your teeth). I'm
not remembering the title of the novel (age and atrophy,
sorry)
--it's the one with Terry the veteran who married money and
drinks too much.
In Mildred Pierce James Cain gets snippy about Mildred's
baking; the line is something about how she learned to bake
pies by time instead of by checking the oven "and so made
better pies," showing himself to be an angry man with a
well-calibrated oven. In a collection of his magazine
writings is a rather didactic article on how to make and
serve spaghetti--it's not from a novel, though.
You could probably do an entire article on advice from the
James Bond books (Ian Fleming--the Tom Clancy of the Playboy
lifestyle).
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
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