I realized that in order for them to feel included, especially when I started to get into more obscure cocktail names that I needed to include the recipes. They were like: “I don't know what a martini is.” The other reason that they are actually recipes rather than just names of recipes is that when I was working on it, some of my Beta readers didn't drink. One of the decisions that I made was starting the first chapter with the martini because when you are introduced to Nick Charles in the film, making a martini. We associate this fanciness with cocktails, and especially ones at inappropriate times of the day. I think it's probably a holdover from Prohibition. So I did that, because in the Thin Man movies, they do drink constantly, it was right at the end of Prohibition. For the most part, I did try to have a link between the name of the drink and something that was going on in the chapter, whether it was they are going to consume this cocktail in this chapter, or in the Death in the Afternoon chapter: Hello, it's the afternoon and there's a death.
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