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

The Frank O'Hara
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Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₃ oz	Liquore Strega

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Garnish: Lemon zest twist

How to make:

STIR with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This ever so simple Martini-style cocktail is surprisingly complex and tasty with the botanicals of both the gin and Italian liqueur combining harmoniously.

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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."

Alcohol content:

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

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Anonymous

16th October 2021 at 19:53

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

17th October 2021 at 10:13

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

Anonymous

29th August 2020 at 01:43

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 .