Cocktails come back with intoxicating rush

Sunday Star-Times | August 25, 1996| | Copyright

* Cocktails are making a sophisticated return to the high esteem they were held in earlier this century, --------------------

REMEMBER the dim dark ages when a cocktail in New Zealand meant a Brandy Alexander, a Traffic Light, a Fluffy Duck or, if you had the chutzpah to ask for it, A Long, Slow Comfortable Screw.

Elizabeth Hilton -- a cocktail fan for decades who drank Margaritas, in Beirut, Negronis in Hong Kong, and Manhattans in Manhattan -- despaired when she came back to New Zealand a few years ago and ordered a cocktail.

"It used to be so frustrating. The bartender was invariably a ...

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