Friday, November 18, 2011

Meleagris gallopavo Cocktail


Here's to Michael P. Branch and his wild bird concoction!  His is a special drink for the Presidential Pardoning Ceremony which will take place Wednesday, November 23rd, the morning before Thanksgiving.

Ingredients & Directions
"stout tumblers of what I call Meleagris gallopavo cocktail, which is Wild Turkey straight up, the "cock-tail" mixed in only as an avian pun.  After all, nothing is more threatening to one's mental health than to be caught uncomfortably sober when it comes time for the leader of the free world to issue a televised and legally binding pardon to a bird."

Thus he wrote in "Free Birds: A Thanksgiving Lesson in Forgiveness"; Orion, November/December 2011.

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