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The Spritz Rules

1/29/2014

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Spritz al Aperol, Venetian Spritz
I am reposting this note in honor of a very special moment.  Yesterday evening I met a friend for a drink and she was shocked to arrive and find me drinking a spritz.  "The hour for apperativo has passed!"  "I know,"  I said, "But this is the first of the day for me and I am taking a ridiculous amount of pleasure in it!"  And it was true.  Last night, for the first time ever, I drank a spirtz, enjoyed it thoroughly, and even had a this-is-exactly-what-I-wanted moment over it.  Crazy!

So it seems that after many years of ambivalent spritz drinking, I have finally arrived!  My friend Giuliomaria, the real author of the "spritz rules" was, as ever, 100% right.
 


The Spritz Rules:


WHAT? What was that you said? You don't like Spritz???! Would you like to know a secret? Neither do I! Fortunately, there is a cure for the affliction of not liking spritz. Know what it is? More Spritz! Doesn't work that way with vegetables does it? Every bell pepper I taste is worse than the last…

I heard a lot of spritz wisdom at Taverna Ciardi as a I grimaced-down an oh-so-bitter artichoke spritz. That spritz was nicknamed "Giulio's Friend" and the wise man who made it was Giuliomaria.  Now, I'm going to share with you a little of the spritz wisdom that Giuliomaria shared with me:

No one is born liking spritz, but we all have a capacity to learn to love it. Man's relationship with spritz goes like this:

  • 1st Spritz- Don't like it.
  • 2nd Spritz- Was offered to you by a friend so you're obliged to drink it.
  • 3rd Spritz- Everyone else is having one and you don't want to go against the grain.
  • 4th Spritz- You're hooked.
  • After 10 years of drinking Spritz- You're an honorary Venetian Citizen. Wait a second... Could I get that in writing?

Grazie mille (or Grassy Milly if that's how it comes out) Giuliomaria! We've learned to love glamor and grit, fellow tourists, snow, fog, rain, climbing stairs & fog horns. Now, thank goodness, we can also love relaxing and mulling it all over with a spritz!


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