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Letter: Letters: Stirring stuff

Published 30 April 1994

From MARK LANGFORD

Q: What is the significance of James Bond’s famous phrase ‘shaken, not
stirred’?

Is there really a difference in the taste of a shaken vodka martini,
as opposed to a stirred one? And if there is, why?

Mark Langford Stockport, Cheshire

Issue no. 1923 published 30 April 1994

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