1.   The middle-aged woman mixing the drinks was called Madeline.

2.   You can leave the meal cooking while you mix a drink for your guests.

3.   As with most mixed drinks, tinker to suit your taste buds.

4.   At the front is a counter managed by two young men, simmering marble-size tapioca pearls in a stock pot and mixing drinks with a cocktail shaker.

5.   Because martini drinkers know exactly how the drink should be mixed, they tread warily when facing conditions that do not duplicate their own laboratories.

6.   But he has listened to his share of Hamptons stories while mixing drinks for customers at the bar where he works on the Upper East Side.

7.   He mixed two drinks for me, one in the silver, one in the stainless steel.

8.   Meanwhile, Schmidt reaches for bottles as she mixes drinks seemingly without thinking.

9.   Next to go, she said, may be the cart she uses to cook hot dogs and mix slushy drinks.

10.   Then to mix the drink, he shakes the scented vodka with ice, pear eau de vie, lemon juice and sugar syrup.