But on the Martini Republic front, our own Dr. Cocktail, Ted Haigh, from whom I’ve learned fully half of this cocktail scheiss, is featured in the Times food section today as well. He gets around—he was written up in the debut issue of Imbibe also.

And for what it’s worth: checking the Doctor’s Cocktail database (at cocktaildb.com) I find 22 different manhattan recipes, none of which call for grenadine. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t indeed made that way. They are, very often.