Little Giuseppe
Build in a highball glass, stir with large ice, then add more ice if needed and a pinch of coarse salt to a large ice cube or top of ice ball above the surface of the liquid
Salt is supposed to slowly make its way into drink as the ice melts. Bears a striking resemblance to the Search for Delicious.
Supposedly was created through a game of telephone with some top cocktailers
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- A little plain,
- I definitely prefer the Search for Delicious proportions.
- I add a thick peel of orange in addition to the lemon.
- Was introduced to me by Scott Holliday at Rendezvous in Cambridge, MA
- Bitter Giuseppe — Cynar, Sweet vermouth, Orange bitters, Lemon juice
- She'll never settle — Cynar, Sweet vermouth, Orange bitters, Grapefruit juice, Simple syrup, Orange peel
- Manning The Hatches — Cynar, Campari, Cherry Liqueur, Gin, Soda water
- Two from L.A. — Cynar, Gin, Herbal liqueur, Orange bitters, Egg white, Orange peel
- To Hell with Spain — Cynar, Rye, Cherry Liqueur, Absinthe, Bitters, Lemon juice
NY Times credits Chicago's Stephen Cole for the Bitter Giuseppe. The thirdcoast blog doesn't say whether Misty "created" the variant on this page. Given that she describes a "game of telephone", I suspect Cole's may have come first. It was printed in Rogue/Beta Cocktails. My copy of that went missing, but the NY Times version has a bit less sweet vermouth (which I prefer), though they use Carpano Antica.
Because The Search for Delicious (nearly identical to Little Giuseppe) is an explicit riff on the Bitter Giuseppe (created by one of the authors of Beta after he samples the BG), I suspect that the mod team should have kept the BG instead of the LG.
In any case: the three cocktails are each fantastic and I'd likely find it challenging to really pick one out of a lineup.