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10 Great Novels and the Cocktails You Should Pair Them With
The Sound and the Fury
Chatham Artillery Punch
8 lemons
1 pound superfine sugar
750-milliliter bottle bourbon or rye
750-milliliter bottle Cognac
750-milliliter bottle dark Jamaican rum
3 bottles Champagne or other sparkling wine
nutmeg
[Recipe via The New York Times]
Though we’re not sure that the man who famously opined that ”civilization begins with distillation” would go to all this trouble to get some drink in him (we’ve heard he favored the Mint Julep, or a whiskey), the rest of us get a little slack. After all, a complex, maddening, amazing Southern classic deserves to be drunk while reading one of the same.