I have a track record of being rude about the Cosmopolitan, which I’ve always considered a rather sickly drink. But the fault, it turns out, didn’t lie with the Cosmo, but me – I’d been making it all wrong, as I discovered when I ran into its creator in New York.
This eighties classic was invented by Toby Cecchini, an elegant, dry-humored bartender of the old school, who these days presides over the much-loved Long Island Bar in Brooklyn…

