Scarlett O’hara

Like Miss Scarlett herself, this cocktail has an edge within its guise of scarlet-colored sweetness. And it would certainly be appreciated after finishing Margaret Mitchell’s 1,037-page saga of Scarlett and Rhett and Ashley and the rest of the book’s dysfunctional family. Atlanta’s Miss Margaret (1900–1949) was quite the socialite, who listened intently to family friends tell stories of the war of Northern aggression. “When we went calling, I was usually scooped up onto a lap—told that I di