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3 questions about vodka, answered

  • Written by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor, Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
Actor Roger Moore poses with a martini after learning he would play the British secret agent James Bond.AP Photo

Towards the end of Ian Fleming’s spy novel “Dr. No,” James Bond orders a vodka dry martini – “Shaken and not stirred please.”

The novel was published in 1958, at the height of the Cold War. But four...

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