Paradise (cocktail)

Paradise
IBA Official Cocktail
Type Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Served Straight up; without ice
Standard drinkware
Cocktail glass
IBA specified ingredients*
Preparation Shake together over ice. Strain into cocktail glass and serve chilled.
* Paradise recipe at International Bartenders Association

The Paradise is an IBA official cocktail, and is classified as a "pre-dinner" drink, an apéritif.

The earliest known in-print recipe for the Paradise Cocktail was written by Harry Craddock. This cocktail is prepared using gin, apricot brandy (apricot liqueur), and orange juice in a 2:1:1 ratio, with a splash of lemon juice.[1]

In Popular Culture

The Paradise cocktail plays a key part in the 1933 Warner Bros. romantic film One Way Passage as the drink of the two star-crossed lovers played by Kay Francis and William Powell.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Harry Craddock (1930). The Savoy Cocktail Book. Constable & Company, London. ISBN 1-86205-296-4.
  2. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/292668/One-Way-Passage-Movie-Clip-Paradise-Cocktail.html


To view the ultimate Paradise Cocktail being made see the Academy Award winning film from 1932'One Way Passage' with William Powell& Kay Francis.In the introduction setup there is a bar scene in Shanghai in which the bartender does quite a performance in making the cocktail for William Powell while absently chatting away .It is a beautiful routine& the drink with shattered glasses & stems crossed is a running bit through the film about star crossed lovers going to their deaths...

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