The Moscow Mule, despite its name and main ingredient, doesn't hail from Russia. It's a red-blooded American cocktail, cooked up in Manhattan in 1941 by three men in the beverage industry: one a distributor, one a maker of ginger beer, and one a maker of vodka. They wondered what it would taste like to add two shots of vodka to ginger beer and a squeeze of lime. It tasted good. Thus the Moscow Mule, named after their location at the Chatham Hotel, the birthplace of "Little Moscow," was born.

Fusilloni alla Norma (from Al dente la salsa). Pour 4 personnes. 400 g de Fusilloni, 60 de ricotta fraiche, 1 sauce Norma Al dente la salsa, 2 cuillères à soupe d’huile d’olive, 1 grosse poignée de feuilles de basilic, sel, poivre du moulin.