Photographers,
in pre-digital days where light meant everything, had to use one for the other,
as in the technique known as ‘day for night’, wherein shooting is done in
daylight using blue filters and under-exposed later by a few ‘stops’.
French nouvelle
vague auteur Francois Truffaut even named one of his revered movies Day For
Night, a movie about a movie, after the method film makers used to trick
audiences.
Getting through
a dull day is, indeed, a trick. One bit merges into another and before you know
it, it’s tomorrow. Which, as Bond lovers will know, never dies.
To compensate
for this confusion – and occasionally to add to it – there are those who, where
others might sip a glass of fresh orange juice of a morning, turn instead to a
Tequila Sunrise. And not necessarily in Mexico either.
I invited three
chums round to indulge me in the version pictured above.
Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients
(serves four)
4 oz decent
tequila
Fresh orange
juice
Orange bitters
Grenadine syrup
Method
Fill four
highball glasses with ice cubes (chill them in the fridge for an hour or so beforehand)
Place six ice
cubes in a cocktail shaker
Add the tequila
and a good dash of bitters
Shake vigorously
Pour into the
glasses
Add orange juice
to about an inch from the top and stir
Gently pour a
dollop of Grenadine down the edge of each glass; it will sink to the bottom
then gradually rise, giving the appearance of a sunrise
Place two straws
in each glass and garnish with a wedge of fresh orange between two maraschino
cherries on a cocktail stick.
What a morning!
Creative types, they strode off afterwards and …
- a/ invented software for transferring people to another destination without the requirement of the internal combustion engine. “Beam me up, Scotty!”
- b/ drew up a peace document sine qua non for Israel and Palestine
- c/ came up with an idea of getting gin from the offie if it’s raining: sending his little brother.
Me, I just
mulled over the rest of what some imagined was another day. Fortified – yes, I
was – it came to me that such a day as this should never end. After much
mulling and creating on the part of my chums we all repaired later to my flat
to turn day into night – but without the perception of it, the requirement
being … why, a Tequila Sunset. Chums satisfied that their host could invent an
item equal to anything they could come up with, I smiled – it was a rather
skewed smile, I admit – and got on with it.
Tequila Sunset
Recipe and
method similar to the aforementioned Sunrise but instead of fresh orange juice,
I used a pink cranberry and raspberry concoction.
The latter on its own is, I’m
sure, terribly healthy, but would never transport the inquisitive mind to think
up E=MC2 or whatever, but added to these other ingredients and enjoyed in the
company of philosophers – some call them bevvy merchants – well, there’s no
comparison.
There's even a song for it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEM_63_P0CY
There's even a song for it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEM_63_P0CY
