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"  Julian Cox, 31 Rivera, Sotto, and Picca Los Angeles So how&amp;#039;d you get here? I started my own program at Rivera in 2008. That was my first place, and it got really popular, so we opened up a series of places after that. I did all the beverages and all the training and all the cocktails. Is this what you always thought you&amp;#039;d do? I never thought that this was actually what I&amp;#039;d be doing for a career, but I&amp;#039;ve been able to make it work, and it&amp;#039;s been fantastic. So what do bartenders know about drinking that the rest of us don&amp;#039;t? There&amp;#039;s an art to it. Before a meal, an aperitif is something really special, and after the meal, a digestif or an amaro is very traditional in Europe. It&amp;#039;s not commonplace in America, and I think bartenders key-in on that. What can you tell about a person by what they drink? If you have a woman who orders a single-malt Scotch from you, that&amp;#039;s a whole different kind of a woman, as far as I&amp;#039;m concerned. What have you learned about people&amp;#039;s moods when they drink? You kind of do the job of relaxing them. You become their surgeon. If you become that person for them, they&amp;#039;ll trust you. What is your favorite fictional bar and why? The bar in Skyfall. That scene is basically a quick shot of a bar, and this lady shaking a cocktail with a lot of technique, and then you see her strain it out, and it&amp;#039;s just \u2014 perfect. What&amp;#039;s the best drink you&amp;#039;ve ever had? Drinking mezcal out of the still with Ron Cooper in Oaxaca was a pretty momentous occasion for me. Did you eat fried crickets while you were there? Oh, yes. That happened. What do you wish people didn&amp;#039;t order? J\u00E4germeister comes to mind pretty quickly. What&amp;#039;s the most underrated drink? A gin and tonic. I like a great London-style dry gin, and it&amp;#039;s even more fantastic when people make their own tonics. That&amp;#039;s a beautiful thing. Hangover cure? Just a shot of Fernet Branca. It&amp;#039;s been curing people for a couple hundred years. What drinking trend do you approve of? I love people doing bottled cocktails. It&amp;#039;s a great movement. It&amp;#039;s cool. It&amp;#039;s fun. It&amp;#039;s fast. It&amp;#039;s whimsical. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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