Earlier this week, our editor in chief published, on this very website, a recipe for a dirty martini. More specifically, the recipe was for a very, very dirty martini, one with enough briny, prickly olive juice to render it opaque, a condition that Jim claimed made this martini "perfect."
"The perfect martini is the color of fairly healthy seawater and it tastes about the same way," Jim argues. This is false and wrong and bad, and is highly disrespectful to one of the world's most versatile and misunderstood spirits.
In fact, the only correct statement in Jim's entire missive is that "Martinis are about gin.