Cocktail of the Week: The Algonquin

The signature drink of the literary Round Table

¹I like to have a martini

Two at the very most.

After three I’m under the table.

After four I’m under the host.

—Dorothy Parker

I have been to the legendary Algonquin Hotel near Times Square twice in my life. Of course I had read about it numerous times, about how Harold Ross gathered a bunch of sharp-tongued literary and theatre folk there a few times a wee…