Cocktail Of The Week: The Pink DeVille

Here’s to the King. Well. Actually. Here’s to the King’s mother. To be more precise, here’s to the King’s mother’s pink Cadillac, a 1955 DeVille. Today is Elvis’ birthday, and I was thinking of his taking care of business in buying Cadillac’s for his Memphis Mafia, but the first Cadillac he bought and gave away was a pink number, painted his mother’s favorite color, and his favorite car. Ebis loved his Mama.

Clint Eastwood was in a movie called Pink Cadillac. Bruce Springsteen wrote a song called Pink Cadillac. Eddie Cochran, that hiccupping rockabilly, wrote a song called Pink Peg Slacks, but even today a man would have to be secure in his masculinity to wear them. We're not counting the men who strut around wearing those Lilly Pulitzer preppy sissy pants with little lime green golf clubs easily categorized as “Your wife dresses you funny.”

The Pink DeVille Cocktail

Created by Chris, a bartender at Martin's Tavern, in honor of this day, The Pink DeVille consists of the following:

The Pink DeVille Cocktail

1 and 1/2 ounces Stoli Raspberry Vodka
Splash of Cranberry Juice
1 ounce Pink Grapefruit Juice

Shake and pour into chilled martini glass with sugared rim

…or take a handful of pink pills and wash them down with a glass of pink champagne.

"I'm afraid to wake up each morning. I can't believe that all of this has happened to me. I just hope it lasts." ~~ Elvis Presley some time in the 1950's.

January 2, 2008