The second of the Christmas spirits to visit Scrooge is the Ghost of Christmas Present. Dickens describes him as "jolly giant" with dark brown curls. Oddly enough, his TV depictions always reminded us of one of our uncles. Anyhow...the burly ghost shows Scrooge around London taking him first to his nephew's Christmas celebration where those assembled are making merry. He also shows Scrooge multiple scenes of those who are deprived during Christmas, using Scrooge's own words against him.
Gin
20 December 2013
19 December 2013
Day 19: Ghost of Christmas Past
For the next three days, we’re focusing on the three main spirits (no pun intended!) of A Christmas Carol, those being the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. We thought it would be fun to take one type of cocktail and make three versions of it, one from the past (or a classic form of it), one from the present (or how it has been morphed into a contemporary cocktail) and one as it might be envisioned in the future. The base cocktail we decided to go with is a martini. It’s classic and yet extremely versatile. The past decade has seen an explosion of variations on a martini with some incredibly imaginative and delicious cocktails have come out of it.
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