Like I was Sayin’

Some of the best stories stem from an encounter with a cocktail—or three. These legendary Southern natives and transplants say it best.

Tallulah Bankhead told a friend that her doctor had advised her to eat an apple every time she had the urge to drink. She arched an eyebrow and added, “But really, dahlings, sixty apples a day!”

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I stay close to home most of the time—unless, of course, someone’s buying dinner, and then I’m a boy with bells on. Otherwise I simply rise and do a bit of sonnet writing, then take a nap, then eat a little, read a little, and then, when there’s an emergency—and there most always is—I fill my bathtub up with Jim Beam and swim my way to safety.