Pedro Friedeberg recalls nights in iconic bars across New York, Paris, and Italy, drinking French white wine and the Martinez, a cocktail that was nearly pure gin with a drop of Cinzano. He talks about his friendship with cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
If you could go back to a bar in New York, Paris or Italy today and sit down to have a drink with one or more of your friends from those days, who would you like to sit with? Well, friends whose names you wouldn't know who they were if I told you. A very good friend I had in New York was the cartoonist Saul Steinberg, who was a genius who drew only in black and white. And I used to go with him to a bar that's in Manhattan, I think, a very fun bar. And what was your go to drink? Well, wine, French white wine. Everyone's favorite in the martini era, Martinez, which is almost pure gin with just a drop of Cinzano.
