Why does a Martini glass look like a cone on a stem? It was designed to keep it cold. Your hand doesn’t warm the bowl. Clever, right?
But the shape is also a flex. The V-shape shows off the liquid’s clarity. Look how perfect that drink is. No fruit. No foam. Just translucent elegance.
Oh, and the olive? That’s a secondary invention. Some say a bartender in the 1880s ran out of lemon peel. He grabbed an olive. The salty, briny flavor matched the gin. A legend was born.
