More than the sum of its fluid parts, a martini is a symbol — it lives in our heads, in pop culture and as a subject of dogma rife in contradiction. What is the perfect martini? No such thing exists, ...

There are few better places in the world one might begin to self-identify as a martini drinker than at Musso & Frank Grill, the 106-year-old Hollywood statehouse for martini consumption.

More than the sum of its fluid parts, a martini is a symbol — it lives in our heads, in pop culture and as a subject of dogma rife in contradiction. What is the perfect martini? No such thing ...

The clutch version of the movie’s iconic mixed drink was covered in crystals of all shapes and sizes, topped with a zesty yellow lemon slice, just the way Emily prefers her signature martini. Does ...

Few among those will be the London dry gins, brisk with forward notes of juniper and citrus, that I prefer for a dry martini. For the home bar, I start with a trip to an independent Los Angeles ...

Does perfect, polished Emily really think that a perfect martini is just straight gin in a frozen glass with a spritz? Perhaps. Or maybe it’s just another way she’s playing at having taste.