Name: The Frank O'Hara
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 10 ml Strega liqueur

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Liquore Strega

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
32.31% alc./vol. (64.61° proof)
22.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Probably named after Frank O'Hara, whose 1964 poem The Day Lady Died about the death of Billie Holiday, includes the verse, "and for Mike I just stroll into the Park Lane Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a New York Post with her face on it."

Comments & Discussion

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Chris Phillips 4y

Re: the name, I suspect this is in reference to O'Hara's poem "The Day Lady Died" (about the death of Billie Holiday) which includes the line "and for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE / Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega" -- that plus O'Hara's noted martini consumption (well, really, the man drank everything, but this is the '60s New York avant-garde art scene we're talking about here) seems likely to be the source of this (excellent!) combination.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

Many thanks for the insight. I've added this reference to the recipe above.

hannah jacomme fernandes gouvea 6y

Alguém sabe me dizer em qual livro encontro essa receita? Eu já procurei em alguns que tenho não acho nada. Não acho nenhuma pista na internet sobre onde ele teria sido publicado e nem mesmo aqui tem algo sobre .