This entry marks the debut of Paul Clarke here at Serious Eats. Paul has been blogging about cocktails on his site The Cocktail Chronicles since 2005. He'll drop by on Wednesdays with some insight into the world of cocktails and then again on Fridays with a recipe for your weekend tippling pleasure. —The Serious Eats Team Words by Paul Clarke | Trouble must have made Richard Nixon pretty thirsty. In 1973, just as Watergate was gathering an unstoppable head of steam, the increasingly besieged president began to seek refuge in, of all places, Trader Vic’s. As Eric Felten wrote recently in his “How’s Your Drink?” column in the Wall Street Journal: "Oddly, the mai tai was the favorite drink of...
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