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Tiramisu Martini

Tiramisu Martini has rich flavors like Kahlua, Rum Chata, and Godiva Liquor. A perfect dessert cocktail for just about any occasion.

We love dessert cocktails! And this easy Tiramisu Martini is one of my go-to party drinks, so creamy and delicious!

One of my favorite things to do in the kitchen is come up with fun and festive cocktails. Dessert drinks are my absolute favorite, and so fun to dream up.

There are so many cordials and liqueurs that make it simple to recreate almost any flavor combination in drink form! I have made everything from Snickers Martini to a latte that tastes just like a Gingerbread Cookie!

The fun never stops when you’re mixing and shaking! I have found a new favorite this super simple Tiramisu Martini. Full of all of the flavors that make tiramisu a favorite dessert, in drink form! What’s not to love?

This cocktail contains three of my favorite liqueurs: Kahlua, Godiva Chocolate, and Rum Chata. Combined with cream, you’re left with a dessert cocktail that tastes just like the famed Italian dessert, Tiramisu! A touch of coffee from the Kahlua, a dash of cocoa from the Godiva Chocolate, and some cinnamon and cream from the Rum Chata. The flavor blend together to create a beautiful after dinner drink perfect for date night, or just to enjoy by yourself after a long week. You cannot go wrong.

Topped with a dollop of whipped cream (of course!), a dash of ground coffee or cocoa, and some lady fingers, and you’re really in business. Good luck drinking just one of this decadent dessert cocktail!

What are your favorite desserts? Have you ever tried to turn them into liquid form? The possibilities are endless and oh so fun. Experimenting with cocktails is about as good as it gets in the kitchen and never a bad idea. I hope you love these Tiramisu Martinis as much as we do!

Craving more delicious dessert cocktail recipes? Be sure to check out this Pineapple Upside Down Cake Cocktail and this Plum Pie Cocktail – both are perfect for spring and summer!

Tiramisu Martini

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ ounces Kahlua (half of a shot glass).
• 1 ½ ounces Rum Chata
• 1 ½ ounces Godiva Chocolate Liquor
• 1 ½ ounces heavy cream
• whipped cream, chocolate shavings, ground coffee or cocoa, and lady fingers for garnish (optional)

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake to combine.
3. Pour into 2 martini glasses.
4. Top with freshly whipped cream, chocolate shavings, ground coffee or cocoa, and lady fingers. All are optional, but all are fun!

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posted by Becky on March 25, 2016

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When you say half of a shot glass that is less than 1.5 ounces by more than half… I mean 1.5 ounces is equivalent to one cocktail usually and you would pour one and a half shots to equal 1.5oz. do you mean out of a double shot glass or are the measurements supposed to be less?

Hi, Sam! Go with 1.5 ounces. I hope you enjoy it!

This think so elegant and delicious

Thank you, Jennai! Let me know how you like it!

This looks divine! Saved it to my Cocktail Hour board on Pinterest!

Wonderful, Kitty! I hope you enjoy it!

Hi, thank so much for stopping by. I’m Jamie and I bake too much, watch way more hours of Food Network programing than I care to admit publicly, I stay up too late and eat way too much sugar.

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The Classic Gin Martini: The World's Most Famous Cocktail

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• Prep: 3 mins,
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• Yield: 1 serving

The classic Dry Gin Martini is an iconic cocktails and one that should be on every bartender's list of drinks to know. Though there have been many martinis created, there is only one Martini and few drinks can beat it.

There is no mystery to the Martini. It is, quite simply, gin and dry vermouth. However, personal preferences among martini lovers make it a little more complicated than that. The Martini comes with a number of ways to customize it so it fits your personal tastes and there are no right or wrong answers.

The debate over the 'proper' way to make a Martini will never die. What is more important is how you as the drinker enjoy it best.

The nice thing about the Martini is that after you fall in love with it, you will know exactly what you like. You will also know how to adapt it to a particular gin or vermouth. Once you learn how you like this classic cocktail, you may quickly join the community of devoted martini connoisseurs.

What You'll Need

• 2 1/2 ounces gin
• 1/2 ounce dry vermouth
• 1 or 3 olives or a lemon twist for garnish
• Orange or Angostura bitters (optional)

How to Make It

1. Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes.
2. Stir for 30 seconds.
3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
4. Add a dash of orange or Angostura bitters, if desired.
5. Garnish with the olive or lemon twist.

A Simple Cocktail with Complications

No longer can you walk into a cocktail lounge and simply say "I'll have a Martini." It often becomes a game of twenty questions:

It's one drink, yet there are so many options. Among all of those, there are a few common ways to customize your Martini.

• Dry Martini- Traditionally, this used more dry vermouth (which is logical), however, recent trends define a Dry Martini as using little or no vermouth. Some drinkers will even simply wave a bottle of vermouth over the glass (without adding any). It's said that Winston Churchill was known to make his Dry Martinis by merely chilling gin and bowing in the direction of France.
• Bone Dry or Desert Martini - No vermouth.
• Gibson - Garnish with a cocktail onion.
• Perfect Martini- Use equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
• Dirty Martini - Add a small amount of olive brine.
• 50-50 Martini - Use equal parts of gin and dry vermouth.
• Vodka Martini - Replace gin with vodka.

More Tips for Making the Best Martini

Quality Counts. The key to a great Martini is to begin with great ingredients. Start off with a top-shelf gin and a decent vermouth. This is not a cocktail where you want to be frugal because there are only two ingredients and if one is inferior, it will bring down the entire drink.

Also, as a number of Martini fans will tell you, every gin is different. You may want to change the ratio between the two ingredients when switching from one gin to another.

About Those Olives. If you are opting for the olive garnish, use either one or three olives skewered on a cocktail pick. Some people say that an even number of olives is bad luck, though I think it just looks better.

If the olives are big or stuffed with jalapenos, garlic, or the like, one olive will usually do. You will find that the flavor of the olive will slowly infuse into the drink and add just a little more dimension as it rests.

What Do Drinkers Prefer?

From 2006 through 2015, I had a poll on this page asking readers how they prefer their Martini. While the poll is now closed, I think that the results are an interesting look at modern drinkers:

• Gin and Vermouth, Stirred: 18,321 votes (20%)
• Gin and Vermouth, Shaken: 23,685 votes (26%)
• Gin and Little or No Vermouth, Stirred: 6,717 votes (7%)
• Gin and Little or No Vermouth, Shaken: 6,098 votes (6%)
• Vodka and Vermouth, Stirred: 11,285 votes (12%)
• Vodka and Vermouth, Shaken: 18,148 votes (20%)
• No Martini for Me, Thanks: 5,819 (6%)

Total Votes: 90,073

These are not the only options, of course. I continually hear from readers about their personal preferences for making the Martini.

Among those is the choice of chilling both the gin and vermouth. One longtime Martini drinker states that he stores both bottles in the refrigerator so they're always nice and cold. This then allows him to skip the ice dilution completely.

This is one approach that will get you the most flavorful Martini and it is a very nice drink. Yet, you must also remember that without dilution, the drink will reman at bottling proof. For most people, one of these drinks a night will be more than enough.

How Strong is the Martini?

The martini is not a light drink and that is why they are so short and rarely poured over 3 or 4 ounces.

With the standard 80-proof gin and a light 15% ABV vermouth, the Martini in this recipe's proportions weighs in at right around 31% ABV (62 proof).

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How to Make a Classic Martini Like a Pro

Because it's time to start drinking like a grown-up.

There is no other cocktail that has quite captured the public imagination like the classic martini. Whether it's James Bond drinking his the wrong way—it should be stirred, as shaken martinis tend to be too diluted—or the image of the 1920s flapper, it's a cocktail that exudes both class and sophistication.

And, made right, it also tastes pretty damn good. Luckily it's not very difficult to make it right. All you need are the proper ingredients, a martini shaker, a chilled glass, and a reasonably high alcohol tolerance.

1. Fill a metal shaker with cracked ice.
2. Pour in the dry vermouth (we prefer Noilly Prat), stir briefly, and strain out (this may be discarded).
3. Add 4 ounces of gin (we prefer Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, or Beefeater). You want it around 94-proof.
4. Stir briskly for about 10 seconds, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with an olive or a lemon twist.

There are quite a few variations on the traditional martini. For instance, garnish it with a cocktail onion rather than an olive or lemon and it becomes a Gibson. There are also syrupy sweet concoctions that co-opt the name and the glass but little else. These are to be avoided.

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Lychee Martini

Enid P. Saldana of San Juan, Puerto Rico, writes: "I would love to get the recipe for the lychee Martini they serve at Kittichai, in New York City."

This summer, enjoy a vodka Martini with a real twist — lychee. The exotic sweetness of the fruit brightens the citrus flavors in this truly refreshing drink.

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Ingredients

1. • 1/4 cup sugar
   • 1/4 cup water
   • 1 cup drained canned lychees (15 to 20, from a 16- to 20-oz can)
   • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
   • 6 oz (3/4 cup) vodka (preferably Skyy)
   • 1 1/2 oz (3 tablespoons) Cointreau or other orange-flavored liqueur
2. Special Equipment
   • a cocktail shaker

Preparation

1. 1. Heat sugar and water in a 1-quart saucepan over high heat, stirring, until sugar is dissolved, then pour into a heatproof bowl set in a large bowl of ice and cold water. Let stand, stirring occasionally, until syrup is cold, about 3 minutes.
   2. Purée lychees with sugar syrup and lemon juice in a blender until smooth, then force through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on solids and then discarding them. Fill cocktail shaker halfway with ice cubes and add lychee purée, vodka, and Cointreau. Shake 15 seconds and strain into Martini glasses.

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This is very good! I love it with a float of champagne. However it's an expensive one to make (even without the champagne). One can of lychees only makes 2 drinks, and they are costly here. So this will be a very special treat.

Makes a delicious and easy drink. I used the syrup from the can instead of making the simple syrup (it's essentially the same thing). I also left the pulp in and it was great.

Very tasty! A little sweet, but still very good. I was lazy and skipped the step where it asks you to strain the mixture and it still turned out great! I will definitely be preparing this again.

great recipe! I made a double batch, then made each martini to order with 1 oz. of vodka, 1/2 oz. cointreau, and 1/4 lychee pureee. Came out very good, and made plenty of martinis for my guests.

FANTASTIC. Have been looking for a great lychee martini recipe for ages, and this fits the bill. Much better than alternatives using lychee juice or liqueur. Definitely worth the moderately slight effort required to prepare the puree.

This was fabulous, really yummy. Used 1.3 cups of the juice from the lychee can rather than the simple syrup (sugar+ water). That upped the lychee flavor and it wasn't too sweet.

If you are looking for a great lychee martini recipe - this is it. It is a bit sweet but I don't think you could have it any other way - meaning that if you don't like sweet drinks then you should probably try something else. They are a little bit of work but most impressive drinks are and it's pretty easy in comparison. And you can make a lot of it ahead of time so if you want to make them for a party or dinner you can have the lychee part already done to add to the shaker with the vodka and cointreau. Great recipe.

brought me back to my trip to NY. I loved it but my mom thought it was a tad sweet. It was also good with a higher vodka:lychee ratio.

This is great in the fall, too. We buy several cans when we can find them, save them for desperate times!

licking lips. tasty as hell. it works well with grey goose too so don't need to worry about using skyy

Didn't have any orange flavored liquor, so I had to substitute it for the only fruity thing I had, which was Chambord. . .holy cow! Watch out! These were dangerously good.

I made this for my mom and myself on Mother's Day and it was divine! A very special treat and perfectly sweet!

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Recipe: Birthday Cake Martini

By Michael Wurm Jr.

I love creative ways to make celebrations extra special. When I'm entertaining, I always like to give attention to the details. At the end of the day, it's those special touches that guests will remember and hopefully be inspired by.

One of my favorite details is a signature cocktail recipe. It’s a great opportunity to bring in something unique to suit the occasion as well as a fun way for guests to try something new. Tie the cocktail into a personal experience (e.g., a drink you had while traveling, a concoction that matches the personality of the guest of honor) and it becomes even more special.

Today I thought we’d focus on a birthday celebration. Someone in your family or circle of friends is likely to have a birthday any day now, so it never hurts to have a few party ideas in your back pocket.

The theme for this particular celebration is confetti and sprinkles. My inspiration: these luscious strawberries, chocolate-covered Oreo® cookies and cupcake truffles.

I thought it would be fun to come up with a festive cocktail that would fit my theme, but also work for any birthday celebration.

Thus, the Birthday Cake Martini was born.

Rimmed with sprinkles, this creamy concoction is basically a cake in a drink. The flavors meld together perfectly. After just one sip, there’s no doubt a celebration is happening.

While the flavors of this martini alone are sweet and delicious, the sprinkles on the rim add color, fun, and that special detail I was talking about earlier. To make sure your sprinkles hold on tight to the glass, rim it in honey. The honey also provides another layer of sweetness.

Let’s shake one up!

2 ounces whipped vodka

1.5 ounces amaretto

1 ounce white chocolate liqueur

2 ounces half and half

Honey and sprinkles for garnish

Begin with two shallow dishes or plates. To one, add a teaspoon of honey. To the other, add the sprinkles. Rim the edge of the martini glass first in the honey and then in the sprinkles. Set aside.

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the vodka, amaretto, white chocolate liqueur and half and half. Shake vigorously. Strain into your prepared martini glass.

I hope you enjoyed this recipe and my tips for a memorable celebration. And if it happens to be your birthday, consider this martini yours. Cheers!

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Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Sprinkle with fresh ground nutmeg.

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• 3 cl Campari
• 3 cl Red Vermouth
• A splash of soda water

Mix the ingredients directly in an old-fashioned glass filled with ice-cubes, add a splash of soda water and ga.

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Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

Shake. Strain into a co.

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Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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• 4.5 cl Bacardi Carta Blanca
• 2 cl Fresh lime juice
• 1 cl Grenadine

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes, shake well, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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• 3 cl Cognac
• 3 cl White Rum
• 3 cl Triple Sec
• 2 cl Fresh lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes, shake, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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• 4 cl Old Tom Gin
• 1 cl Maraschino
• 1 cl Orange Bitters
• 1 cl Fresh lemon Juice

Pour all ingredients into shaker wit.

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• 4.5 cl Gin
• 1.5 cl Raspberry syrup
• 1.5 cl Fresh lemon Juice
• Few drops of Egg White

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well.

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• 4.5 cl White rum
• 1.5 cl Simple syrup
• 2.5 cl Fresh lime juice

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.

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All Day Cocktail

Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice.

Stir. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a fresh mint leaves.

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Before Dinner Cocktail

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes.

Stir well. Strain in chilled martini glass. Squeeze oil from lemon peel onto the dri.

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• 4.5 cl Gin
• 1 cl Sugar syrup
• 3 cl Fresh lemon juice
• 8 cl Soda water

Shake all ingredients with ice cubes, except soda water. Pour into tumbler. Top with soda water. Garnis.

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• 4.5 cl Gin
• 1.5 cl Sugar syrup
• 3 cl Fresh lemon juice
• 6 cl Soda water

Pour all ingredients directly into highball glass filled with ice. Stir gently.

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• 5 cl Rye Whiskey
• 2 cl Red Vermouth
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.Garn.

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• 6 cl White Rum
• 1 cl Maraschino
• 1 cl Grenadine syrup
• 6 cl Fresh pineapple juice

Shake and strain into a chilled large cocktail glass.

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Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glas.

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Pour all ingredients directly into old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir gently.Garnish with half orange slice.

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• 4.5 cl Bourbon or Rye whiskey
• 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• 1 sugar cube
• Few dashes plain water

Place sugar cube in old-fashioned glass and saturate with b.

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Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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• 4.5 cl Dark rum
• 3.5 cl Fresh orange juice
• 3.5 cl Fresh pineapple juice
• 2 cl Fresh lemon juice
• 1 cl Grenadine
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Strain into cocktail glass.

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• 2 drops Vanilla extract.

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• 5 cl Cognac
• 1 cl Absinthe
• 1 sugar cube
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters

Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass w.

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Pour all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice. Stir gently. Garnish with an orange slice.

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Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir.

Strain into a cocktail glass.

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• 3 cl Old Tom Gin
• 3 cl Dry Vermouth
• 1/2 bar spoon Maraschino
• 1/4 bar spoon Absinthe
• 3 dashes Orange Bitters

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• 4.5 cl Bourbon Whiskey
• 1.5 cl Sugar syrup
• 3.0 cl Fresh lemon juice

Dash egg white (Optional: if used shake little harder to foam up the egg white).

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Shake well and strain into large cocktail glass.

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The martini: international drink of mystery?

There's no cocktail more distinctly American than the martini. It's strong, sophisticated and sexy. It's everything we hope to project while ordering one.

Baltimore-born satirist H.L. Mencken is said to have called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." But is the martini perfectly American? Maybe not entirely.

So in honor of National Martini Day on Wednesday, we decided to dig into the drink's muddled past.

The history of the martini is a murky one. As is the case with many alcoholic concoctions through time, things weren't always written down, and memories got fuzzy from drinking a few of them.

Many historians follow the martini back to a miner who struck gold in California during the Gold Rush. The story goes that a miner walked into a bar and asked for a special drink to celebrate his new fortune. The bartender threw together what he had on hand — fortified wine (vermouth) and gin, and a few other goodies — and called it a Martinez, after the town in which the bar was located.

The Martinez was a hit, according to the city of Martinez's official website, and word soon spread about the new drink. It was published in the Bartender's Manual in the 1880s.

And yet, author Barnaby Conrad III, who wrote a book on the drink's history, asserts that San Francisco is the martini's true birthplace. Then there's the claim that a New York bartender created it in 1911.

And wait, there's more: An Italian vermouth maker started marketing its product under the brand name Martini in 1863.

"Personally . I think the martini may have gotten its name because of Martini & Rossi vermouth," says Robert Hess, secretary of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New York. "A customer asks for a 'Martini' cocktail because it utilized that product, much as they might ask for a 'sherry' cocktail in those days if they wanted a cocktail which used sherry. During the 1800s, many drinks were named very simply (gin cocktail, fancy gin cocktail, gin cobbler, gin daisy, etc.)," Hess tells us via email.

Over the years, the drink's fame has grown, as its ingredients (Butterscotch? Seriously?), the ratio of spirits to vermouth, and even its name changed (try saying Martinez three times fast). And there are people who prefer drier versions of a martini, vodka instead of gin, and shaken instead of stirred.

But where does that all-important olive garnish come in?

Nobody knows for sure, but our far-flung correspondent Deborah Amos may have a lead.

Last year, she tells The Salt, she was interviewing a Dr. Ammar Martini, a member of the Syrian Red Crescent, at a Syrian rehab hospital on the Turkish border.

"As we were chatting, I said, 'Hmmm, Martini, that's an unusual Arab name, no?' And he said, 'There are a lot of Martinis in northern Syria. In fact, my grandfather gave the name to a famous drink in the West,' " Amos recalls.

And how did that happen? she asked. Martini said that after the French left Syria (they occupied it from 1920-1946), his grandfather went to Paris and ran a bar and a café.

"His contribution to the famous drink, according to his grandson, was to put an olive in the glass — and he did so because Idlib province in Syria [where he was from] is famous for olives — and so the drink was called Martini after its Syrian inventor," she tells us.

While it's a great story, "unfortunately, this particular one doesn't hold up when you realize that the martini cocktail existed pre-1900," Hess says.

It seems that everyone wants to take credit for this famous cocktail.

Extra Credit: In 1935, Mencken wrote an essay called How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research, which contains some surprisingly modern advice about how best to enjoy alcohol and some sharp passages on the state of American education.

"Drinking with skill and taste is no more a natural art than love; either it must be learned by the onerous process of trial and error, or it must be taught," he writes. The essay was recently republished here by Gawker.

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