“A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose’s lime juice and nothing else,” said Terry Lennox in Raymond Chandler’s book The Long Goodbye. If that’s the case, I’ll have a martini instead. Rose’s is preserved lime juice, which came in handy in the days before refrigeration, but today we can buy fresh limes year-round. I think they taste much better.

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