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  <title>The Perfect Martini</title>
  <published_at>Tue Jul 08 13:44:00 -0700 2008</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/11210</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>It's made with more vermouth than you think</short_description>
  <long_description>Esquire's David Wondrich makes a surprising choice with the Fitty Fitty at the Pegu Club.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</author>
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	<h1>The Perfect Martini</h1>


	<h3>By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</h3>


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<em>Esquire</em> drinks correspondent (and Beard Award–winning author) David Wondrich profiles his perfect martini, the <a href="http://www.chow.com/places/20134">Pegu Club</a>&#8217;s Fitty Fitty, which features equal parts vermouth and gin. Pegu Club co-owner Audrey Saunders adds her thoughts as she pours.
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<p class="author_bio_new"><em>The unparalleled. The best in show. We call it <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/90/category">The Perfect</a>: our video series on how something so very good gets to be that way.</em></p>]]>
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